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About the Course

LinkedIn ranked AI Engineer as the fastest-growing job title in the United States, with postings rising 143% year-over-year. This IBM course builds the foundational PyTorch skills you need to launch that career path—starting with tensors and progressing to fully trained classification models. You will master tensor operations, build custom datasets, and implement linear regression models using PyTorch's nn.Module and autograd system. Then, you will progress through gradient descent, stochastic and mini-batch training, loss functions, and training/validation workflows. Further, you will build logistic regression classifiers, apply cross-entropy loss, and implement advanced optimization and regularization techniques. Through interactive labs, instructional videos, and an AI-assisted dialogue, you will practice building, training, and evaluating models using real PyTorch code patterns. By the end, you will create a portfolio-ready project that demonstrates your ability to perform PyTorch classification and gradient-based optimization tasks. Enroll now to build a project you can confidently showcase and stand out in the AI-driven job market....

Top reviews

DD

Jul 12, 2020

Excellent Course. I love the way the course was presented. There were a lot of practical and visual examples explaining each module. It is highly recommended!

SY

Apr 29, 2020

An extremely good course for anyone starting to build deep learning models. I am very satisfied at the end of this course as i was able to code models easily using pytorch. Definitely recomended!!

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By Bilal G

Mar 29, 2020

less one star due to the many errors I noticed in the

By Sanju A

Jun 19, 2021

Should have more content which covers with examples

By Naufal p

Aug 22, 2024

I think the final asg should be more challenging

By Torben G

Jan 10, 2024

Somebody please use a spell-checker on this ...

By Rahul R A

Feb 15, 2022

A very good course to get started with pytorch

By 003 A P

Jul 28, 2020

Great Course for beginners in pytorch

By Giacomo B

Jul 21, 2023

some bugs on content and windows

By harshita b

May 18, 2020

good explanation with examples

By Roberto G

Apr 12, 2020

very practical, lack of theory

By Tj

Apr 28, 2021

The questions are too simple.

By Kangwon L

Apr 16, 2024

I could learn about PyTorch

By Lemikhov A

Feb 19, 2020

No programming assingments

By Swarnadeep D

Apr 18, 2023

Very good course.

By Utkarsh A

Mar 9, 2022

Good knowledge.

By aditta d

Nov 4, 2021

Good lecture...

By Mohd N K

May 14, 2020

very practical

By Richard B

May 16, 2020

Challenging

By EC-231 V

May 19, 2023

mid

By Alexey K

Jan 28, 2023

The content of this course is actually quite good. Videos are clear. There is no material overload like in the Course 3 of this specialization.

The bad thing is the same as for all the previous courses: the absolute absence of any graded coding practice. All of the "shift+enter Labs" are hilariously inadequate to help retain anything you've learned during lectures. It's like learning PyTorch by watching how your neighbor is writing all of the code. A complete waste of time.

In addition, the quality of the quizzes has also degraded quite a bit when compared to the very previous course. The idea that anyone would be challenged by a quiz with only 2 questions, each with a multiple choice out of 2 potential answers, one of which is always nonsensical, is just laughable. Makes you wonder what kind of audience they made this course for, as the absolute majority of the quizzes are of this retarded type.

By Rafael B

Feb 11, 2022

The content of the course is interesting and light and allows for a good basic understanding of the topic. However, the presentation is not good. The automated narration in the videos is often weird and repetitive. The visual presentation is also not great, the colors and diagrams help very little with the understanding of what's happening in the routines (except for the skecthes of the neural networks themselves, which are pretty good). The lab notebooks are riddled with typos. The course would be improved by having a more detailed discussion of what's going on in the code before practice in the labs. Otherwise, I recommend the course for anyone who is starting in the field.

By Michael H

Jun 21, 2020

This course was not to the same standard as some others I've taken on Coursera. I think the concepts would have been very hard to follow if I hadn't already taken the Deep Learning specialization, so it isn't a great conceptual introduction to Deep Learning. That said, it also doesn't deeply explore the nuances of the PyTorch library, or give very much guidance on best practices or how it differs from other popular frameworks like Keras/TensorFlow. The quiz questions are fairly shallow (and often frustratingly ambiguous). Probably the best part of the class are the ungraded lab assignments.

By Bence M

Feb 6, 2026

The course was generally interesting, introduced me to the most important concepts of the topic. BUT... I am used to higher quality delivery from the IBM course series. This one had many typos, errors, bugs both in the videos and in the labs. The responsible people should spend some time fixing the errors. The exercises sometimes were too easy, then all of the sudden the exam lab was pretty difficult. And I also had to spend an hour debugging an error... I'm slightly disappointed with this course

By Philip M

Aug 23, 2025

An ok overview and introduction to neural networks, although it does not build much upon previous modules in the IBM Deep Learning with PyTorch, Keras and Tensorflow certificate. Also it is let down by the frustrating peer review method at the end, whereby you need to submit print screens and then marker others work. We now have the technology for automated marking and it is frankly ridiculous course designers stick with a peer review model

By Gasm E M M

Mar 14, 2021

I like to feel a human is teaching me, but I felt a robot is teaching instead. Also, many parts of the labs are copied from each other, and that's good, but the sentences and comments are forgotten unchanged and they don't belong to that lab. I preferred if the PowerPoints were designed better. Other than that, I can see that the author tried his best to include everything.

By Rajaseharan R

Nov 1, 2021

The presenter at times goes too fast and once he's finished talking the slide moves forward before there is time to absorb the material. The slides also contain errors. Should be more throughly reviewed. The labs also contain some bugs. The quizes contain some spelling mistakes and some of the quiz questions are unclear.