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About the Course

In the second course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will open the deep learning black box to understand the processes that drive performance and generate good results systematically. By the end, you will learn the best practices to train and develop test sets and analyze bias/variance for building deep learning applications; be able to use standard neural network techniques such as initialization, L2 and dropout regularization, hyperparameter tuning, batch normalization, and gradient checking; implement and apply a variety of optimization algorithms, such as mini-batch gradient descent, Momentum, RMSprop and Adam, and check for their convergence; and implement a neural network in TensorFlow. The Deep Learning Specialization is our foundational program that will help you understand the capabilities, challenges, and consequences of deep learning and prepare you to participate in the development of leading-edge AI technology. It provides a pathway for you to gain the knowledge and skills to apply machine learning to your work, level up your technical career, and take the definitive step in the world of AI....

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YL

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very useful course, especially the last tensorflow assignment. the only reason i gave 4 stars is due to the lack of practice on batchnorm, which i believe is one of the most usefule techniques lately.

NC

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Yet another excellent course by Professor Ng! Really helped me gain a detailed understanding of optimization techniques such as RMSprop and Adam, as well as the inner workings of batch normalization.

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By Isaac S

Nov 27, 2019

I missed in the course an explanation and possibly a programming assignment of different tuning algorithms, such as random search and Bayesian search.

By Rajeev D

May 25, 2020

The coverage on the subject was adequate but it will really help to make a pdf supporting document to highlight the hyper parameter tunning approach.

By James D B

Jun 22, 2019

Probably a little too follow your nose at this point in the specialisation. But none-the-less very good. Would give 4.5 stars if that were an option.

By Christoph S

Mar 3, 2019

Still some flaws + inaccuracies + video sequences that should be cut out. I think the organizers should really do it as people are now paying for it!

By Teodor C

Dec 28, 2018

Last Tensorflow assignment has some output typos and bugs when using operators like @ and +. Course was ok, but that assignment took me way too long.

By HongZhang

Jun 13, 2018

Great course to deepen my knowledge after first course. However, I would like to access more programming exercise for practice. That will be perfect!

By Daniel E B G

Aug 26, 2019

I think this course would benefit from a little more explaining. There are a lot of new concepts and some explanations were too quick in my opinion.

By Amir V

Jul 12, 2023

The introduction to TF felt rushed, but maybe that's to be expected given the goals of this Course, which didn't include a kickstart of learning TF

By Abhishek G

Mar 25, 2023

A very good course but I had high hopes for a practical session (Assignment) with application of hyperparameter tuning, with Tensorflow or without.

By Latypov B

Jan 3, 2021

Теория хорошая, но практики во первых мало, во вторых на устаревшей версии тензорфлоу. Но зато в теории все разжевали. Очень круто все объясняется.

By Stephen R

Oct 26, 2018

Enjoyed this course, especially the material that goes a bit deeper (different optimization methods, parameter tuning) and the intro to TensorFlow.

By Chee H H

Nov 24, 2017

Less exciting than the first course, but this course is important to understanding the parameters that could affect a neural network's performance.

By Sander L

May 2, 2021

I feel like the course is a bit too easy. I would recommend making it more difficult by letting the end-user try more hyperparameter tuning tests.

By Youssouf B

Apr 22, 2019

what I did recognize in the deeplearning specialization that there are now further reading suggestions or reading syllabus like the other courses.

By Harsh T

Feb 26, 2019

This course is one of the best course for good understanding of hyperparameter tunning.

And also let you know the effect of various hyperparameter.

By Nicolás C

Apr 9, 2019

Nice course, TensorFlow might need some more in-detail explanation because it's a different than programming with Python, but it was really nice.

By Vinicius J S

Aug 8, 2018

Nice course and nice the Tensorflow introduction, but there are errors on the lecture and on the final test. Be aware to use the forum some times

By Daniel F (

Feb 9, 2020

Course was awesome, but there is an error with the grader for one of the programming assignments that took some time to search for a workaround.

By Collin O

Mar 15, 2019

Valuable lessons, but the tensorflow lesson + assignment at the end was a bit vague and hard to follow to the point of passing their test cases.

By Giuseppe N

Jul 9, 2018

It's very good, but I would have spent more explaining the difference between adding layers and adding neurons, and how to decide the next move.

By Jeremy Z

Dec 11, 2017

a few of the examples and expected output for the programming exercises seemed not to be correct. otherwise great course. highly recommended.

By David A S

Sep 27, 2017

Good course. Kinda skips over hard bits which only leaves one with more questions. Hopefully these details are recovered in the later courses.

By 지혜성

Apr 18, 2021

Very good class. Appreciate it.

However, the explanation for some theories is not enough.

More explanation needed for Adam optimizer, RMS prop.

By Dinh T T

Feb 9, 2019

It's a wonderful course because it provides me how to improve deep neural networks and delve to some techniques to gain good hyperparameters

By John S L

Feb 1, 2019

Would have given 5 stars if the Jupyter exercise did not give me too much of a hard time looking for errors in syntax. Overall, great lesson!