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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....

Top reviews

AS

Apr 18, 2020

Very good course to give you deep insight about how to enhance your algorithm and neural network and improve its accuracy. Also teaches you Tensorflow. Highly recommend especially after the 1st course

HD

Dec 5, 2019

I enjoyed it, it is really helpful, id like to have the oportunity to implement all these deeply in a real example.

the only thing i didn't have completely clear is the barch norm, it is so confuse

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By Luca

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Apr 20, 2018

Great course, Andrew Ng is just the best teacher for NN and machine learning. Assignments and quiz too easy, probably i will struggle on the implementing it on my own. But is common to MOOC so definitely the best deep learning MOOC out there

By vikram i

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Aug 23, 2017

I wish these assignments would never get completed. Very nicely hand holding done through out the assignments so that you don't loose interest and also teach the intended stuff without watering down.

Thanks a lot! Recommend this course highly!

By Ramenga H

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Sep 12, 2017

I'm a beginner in ML so i don't know much to say but this course teaches what it says it will do. In the middle of the course you may be having lot of questions about how it all fits together, but they almost always get clarified in the end.

By Maryam S

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Jun 14, 2023

Dear Committee of Coursera,

I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for the incredible support I received throughout my learning journey.

The support that I received from Coursera was commendable and I just want to say: Thank you

By Ana J S

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Dec 20, 2020

A LOT OF INTERESTING CONTENT

A lot of content to improve the knowledge about NN and related frameworks! As always a lot of guided interesting practices very applicable to real problems. I will continue with the rest of modules without doubt.

By Neeraj N

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Feb 28, 2018

A bit hard to follow but worth the time spent as this course helps to build the intuitions behind some of the most famous optimization algorithms and tuning methods by making the students work through them using only basic python and numpy.

By Kunjin C

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Sep 3, 2017

Very practical course for implementing deep neural networks from scratch. The ideas of hyper-parameter tuning, regularization and optimization are very refreshing even for experienced deep learning engineers. Learned a lot from this course.

By Vihanga J

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May 16, 2021

The course was really interesting and helpful! This series of coursers guides even a novice to the field through a simple, easily understandable learning process. Many thanks to Coursera, DeepLearning.Ai, and the lecturers for this series.

By Pratyush S

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Aug 28, 2017

Continuing the trend of magnificent course content, Dr. Andrew Ng walks us through some exceptional practical advice in implementing DL algorithms, detailing the concepts and the best-practices, and mentioning the pitfalls. Simple awesome!

By Dragos R

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Jul 17, 2019

It's a very good course for those willing to dig into the nitpicking of it. If you're really serious about this field, or if you're going to use neural networks often in your job, these lectures (and notebooks) can save you a lot of time.

By Neil O

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Jan 12, 2018

This is an excellent class for understanding how to tune neural networks. I guess this will continue to be a valuable skill set until we have neural networks that can figure out optimal parameters to design and tune other neural networks.

By serge

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Sep 10, 2017

I've worked with deep neural networks before for a while, but this course gave me a lot of new ideas, especially different tips and tricks on fine-tuning hyperparameters and speeding up the training of a deep neural net. Highly recommend!

By Meenakshi S R

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Sep 9, 2024

Very good follow-up course to the NN basics and well explained/covered by the instructor. I am already a big fan of Andrew - enrolled the course with positive feedback about him and the courses and their quality exceeded my expectations.

By Ernest W

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Jun 30, 2021

The course is okay. The programming assignments really shows how tuning the equations improve neural network. At the end there is a quick introduction to Tensorflow. It's too shallow but I guess rest of specialization will teach me more.

By Aminur R A

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Mar 3, 2021

Pretty much helpful. I was a novice and this course helped me a lot to start my jourmey in a right way. I will recommend others to come and join this course and hopefully you all can get more insights in your career in machine learning.

By Wong X Y

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Feb 28, 2021

This course provides a lot of insights towards improving performance and accuracy of deep NN with clear teaching, step by step and practical assignments. Love the introduction of TensorFlow in this course. Hats off and thank you so much!

By Carlos A L P

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Jan 4, 2021

Great continuation of the 1st course of Neural Networks where you explore more about NN and how to optimize the implementations / algorithms. This course explains again at a lower level grade how the hyperparameters affect the algorithms

By Federico E T

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Dec 30, 2020

The introduction to Tensorflow and real tools to work with these complex aproaches is something I did not expect and is really good. It more accessible than the previous one ! And that makes it more applicable. I am happy with the course

By Kiet P

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Jun 28, 2020

Tuning is very important piece in DL. Thanks for this awesome course prof Andrew! A little peak into Tensorflow is quite eye-opening. Though it's only Tensorflow 1.0 but you will come to know later how powerful Tensorflow 2.0 has become.

By Michail T

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Aug 27, 2018

This part is one of the most important to working with NN or DL nets. The instructor has achieved to teach a not so easy topic in an awesome manner so everyone is able to tune his networks as a professional. Can't wait for the next part.

By Adrian L

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Nov 25, 2017

I this course I learned how to improve Deep Neural Networks by applying different methods that help to speed up the convergence and to reduce overfitting. Also, now I have some basic knowledge about using TensorFlow. Thank you very much!

By Hussein J

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Dec 8, 2021

Exceptional Course. I really enjoyed the explanation of Hyperparameters. Every tip, every piece of advice helped me to build better models. Moreover, I liked the introduction part of the TensorFlow framework. Thank you, Prof. Andrew Ng.

By CLAUDIO A

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Jul 24, 2019

pretty good course all in all !, I would say considering the difficulty of this topics, the instructor has done a great job in transmitting the relevant parts that one needs to remember and also in justifying why things are as they are.

By Alexandre R

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Dec 29, 2018

Very well structured class as a follow-up to the first one. Heavy on information but this is a good thing. As someone who isn't pro at Python, the development part was much smoother since programming wise it is similar to the first one.

By Santiago I C

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Dec 5, 2018

En línea con los anteriores. Muy teórico pero perfecto para entender los entresijos del funcionamiento de los algoritmos. Si acaso echo en falta algo más de tensorflow pero supongo que se verá en el resto de cursos de la especializacion