Learner Reviews & Feedback for Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization by DeepLearning.AI
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AM
Oct 8, 2019
I really enjoyed this course. Many details are given here that are crucial to gain experience and tips on things that looks easy at first sight but are important for a faster ML project implementation
AA
Oct 22, 2017
Assignment in week 2 could not tell the difference between 'a-=b' and 'a=a-b' and marked the former as incorrect even though they are the same and gave the same output. Other than that, a great course
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By Peter F
•Nov 6, 2018
few minor errata within the assignments that haven't appeared to be fixed even 1 year after reported. But otherwise learned a lot and enjoyed the course style and will continue to learn this spec
By Charles-Edouard C
•Dec 6, 2017
one remark for the last assigment, the neural network to read the hand signs, once finished and validated , I tried with my own pictures from my webcam, and it never worked (always predicting 2).
By Patrick S
•Sep 18, 2017
Having a good understanding of tuning the Hyperparameters is key to build powerful neural networks.
The course helped me to keep a focus on tuning and understanding the relationships parameters.
By Mohammad Y
•Apr 24, 2026
good, course, I wish if there was some videos explaining the math depth of optimizers, why are we dividing by Sw or why are we multiplying by Vw, AI tool helped me to get through these topics
By Mark P
•Jun 26, 2019
very quick moving but the assignments were too easy - they give you too much of the code (both the surrounding code which is fine but also the precise code for running optimisers for example.
By John R
•Jun 16, 2020
This course helped me a lot to clear my confusion regarding various Machine learning jargon of words. It gave a intuitive understanding and helped solidify my foundation in Machine Learning.
By Tianhao C
•Oct 5, 2019
I like this course a lot! 4 star due to the programming assignment. It is well designed, but hope the assignment could be more challenging instead of just giving us a taste of deep learning.
By Ayham S
•Aug 26, 2022
There were a couple of bits of maths that weren't fully explained and the very final programming assignement definitely had missing explanations but otherwise was really engaging and useful
By Ricardo A F
•Aug 13, 2020
The concepts were explained in a very understandable way. I would give it 5 stars if it treated the subjects in a deeper mathematical way and if the tensorflow version used was 2 and not 1.
By Oliverio J S J
•Jan 25, 2019
The course is interesting but I am not sure that the best learning strategy is to fill in some lines within a program. I am disappointed that I can not download the material for future use.
By Noah M
•Dec 10, 2019
With the basic knowledge I earned in course 1, it was very helpful attenting this coruse on improving Deep NN and I took a lot of notes during the course, to which can refer in the future.
By sai v
•Feb 13, 2019
Nice course for improving deep neural networks , they will show the all the paths available to improve a neural network , all you have to do is explore it based on your passion and need :)
By Shivank Y
•Jan 26, 2019
The course content is great but the ending lacks tensorflow implementation of regularisation, hyperparameter tuning, learning rate decay, etc. and aslo still not confident enough in those.
By Kai H
•Jan 22, 2019
The final programming task might contain minor bug, passed all sub-sections, but the final one result didn't match with the provided results, better provide more info for easier debugging.
By C. I
•Aug 31, 2017
Good material. The exercises are a little bit easy. The worst part is that after the last assignment, the certificate is done immediately and you don't have a chance to correct any errors.
By Miro A
•Jan 27, 2019
Excellent lectures, well prepared, very good examples, great teacher.
I would happily give it 5 stars, if not the constant issues with Coursera infrastructure, crashing notebooks/kernels.
By Anthony K
•Nov 8, 2018
The course is very interesting and fairly well laid out but some simple typos can cause some confusion and they have been there for a long time based on some info in the discussion forums
By Sandeep P
•Jun 24, 2018
Nice course. Great introduction to hyper parameters in neural networks and also nice assignment on tensorflow. It would have been even better if they introduced tensorflow in more detail!
By ZW
•Sep 2, 2018
Good material and some very nice practical tips. A few typos here and there in the course material made it difficult at times to debug the code, which is the reason for docking one star.
By Dany J
•Nov 10, 2017
Good covering of many implementation aspects of neural networks. I find the practical exercises to lean on the tedious side while not bringing a tremendous amount of learning themselves.
By Jose L M
•Sep 14, 2018
It was somewhat frustrating to spend so much time coding raw python, just to discover that TF can do all of that with one-liners. Nevertheless it was valuable to learn the nitty-gritty.
By Akhtar H
•Jan 21, 2021
Nice explanation of Tensor flow. Hyperparameter tuning was explained in easy and robust way. Programming Assignment is tricky but forum comments helped a lot in resolving the problem.
By Aditya L
•Aug 8, 2020
Some extra information on various optimization algorithms will be good. Moreover, if there are links to some of the research papers and resources to dive into, it will help out a lot.
By Tilman H
•May 10, 2020
Excellent course, but I did not learn many new things (some just from a different angle). Maybe the course description should be updated to be more specific about the target audience.
By Darvoftw
•Jul 7, 2019
Some very interesting material for beginners. At times it feels like concepts are being repeated over and over again, but there is enough new concepts to keep it worthwhile to repeat.