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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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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

AB

Aug 26, 2021

Amazing course which focus on the theoretical part of parameters tuning, but it needs more explanation of Tensorflow, as I felt a little lost in the last project. Except that, it is an amazing course.

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By Anurag A

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Sep 10, 2017

This course is awesome. I never had this deep understanding of tuning hyperparameters, batch normalization and regularization before taking this course, though I went through several online material. The Tensorflow introduction and subsequent programming assignment is also excellent.

By Prabhat K P

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Jan 10, 2020

The best course ever. I am highly impressed with the way Andrew Sir teaches and the depth of the topic, that he explains. You will never be left with a question unanswered. I am grateful to you sir, it made my life. Looking forward to complete the rest of the specialization courses.

By Taras M

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Jul 26, 2018

It would be super cool if this course could be extended with pytorch just to compare with tensorflow. Usually courses are extended on udemy, for instance (not a marketing, just a comparison), even after all the materials are completed. It would be sand to have this course abandoned.

By Sreevishnu D

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Oct 19, 2020

Second course of the specialization and I absolutely love the content and teaching methodology. As always got an elaborate and intuitive understanding of the topics with the best advise and practices on Improving Deep Neural Networks.

Thanks Andrew Ng, Deeplearning.ai and Coursera.

By Kalinchuk I A

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May 7, 2020

Thank you, Andrew and the others, who helped him! The tests are very useful and lectures give enough theory to understand everything. The only think I would like to add is a quiz. Quizzes are very useful and can be used so as to make your brain repeat the what you heard in a video.

By M A

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Mar 21, 2020

As a 2-3yrs experienced deep learning developer should say that this specialization is awesome specifically this course, it's really practical every day to get a better result just tune the parameters as you've learned in the course and boom that's it you get a better model. Thanks

By GAURI M

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May 30, 2020

It is amazing how concepts can be made so clear that implementing them by hand seems so easy. Love how the instructions are commented in the programming assignment. It helps you complete the assignment easily, yet giving such an extreme feeling of fulfilment and accomplishment. :)

By Nektarios K

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Jan 7, 2018

Really loved this course! I believe it is really important for anyone who completed the first one to enroll on this one as well as it goes over many important topics that are critical in implementing Neural Networks. And finally, it goes over Tensorflow which was really fun to do!

By Emilio D P

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Sep 24, 2017

Fantastic course on Deep Learning. The concepts explained during the course are very useful, especially regularization (week 1) and optimization (week 2). The introduction to TensorFlow is great. This course has allowed me to read technical articles about DNN and understand them.

By Saurabh R

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Sep 2, 2020

The discipline with which the code examples are put can make anybody learn Deep Learning with no prio Experience.I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every assignment and tutorials and I am amazed with the way Andrew NG has put the lectures. Kudos to the team behind this course !!

By Timothy G

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Jul 15, 2019

This course was very helpful learn so additional information on hyperparameters which help me out at work. Where I was tuning my own and was able to get 88%. After taking this course and implementing what I learned into auto tune my hyperparameters my accuracy went up to 91.33%.

By tlinden

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May 30, 2018

This lectures + programming examples are very good for a kick start and to understand key concepts. I'm a mathematician, diving into deep learning. I really appreciate this course. The programming examples are valuable even if my python knowledge is on a beginners level. Thanks!

By Dipanjan G

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Feb 3, 2020

This again is an excellent insight on the hyper parameters and deep learning frameworks. The extreme prowess in the subject but at the same time a very lucid and relaxed style of teaching from Andrew helps quickly grasp these difficult concepts. Looking forward to much more!!!

By RAGHAV S

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May 25, 2018

This is such a crucial course to build upon the fundamentals of Neural Networks.

Especially the intuitions that Andrew has provided really add to the arsenal, I'm so glad I took this course.

Looking forward to the other courses in this specialisation.

Thank you Andrew/Coursera :)

By Erik E

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Oct 1, 2017

This is a great course!! In this course a lot of the previous concepts start to be refined and streamlined for efficient implementation. I feel like this course gave me a better handle on the concepts that have been building since my first Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng.

By Dishant g

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Sep 28, 2019

Very well explained each and every concept only I had struggle in gradient checking and every other video and quizzes are great. I hope after doing these courses I will definitely get a good career start after my graduation.

Andrew Ng Sir is Greatest teacher I have found yet.

By Miguel P d L

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Nov 26, 2017

Excellent course, even using intuitions Prof. Andrew Ng is able to communicate the very details of the different regularization approaches, as well how to do a good hyper-parameter search. Finally it introduces the TensorFlow framework with a very nice programming assignment.

By Xinghao Y

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Aug 4, 2020

The most exciting part of this course is the exercise in the last week. The Python/Numpy code structure for a neural network learned in the previous course can be directly translated into the TensorFlow structure intuitively, which makes it easier to learn and to understand.

By Japesh M

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Jun 10, 2020

The Deep Learning course is in great flow and can't get any better than this. I highly recommend deeplearning.ai specialization on Coursera for all the aspiring Deep Learning practitioners. Trust me you'll learn everything, right from the fundamentals to the advanced topics.

By Yang Z

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Dec 15, 2019

This course gives learner a high level strategy in tuning hyperprameter. It teaches me not only the knowledge but also the intuition about the processes. It is also great to learn how to use Tensorflow framework in training models. Great job deeplearning.ai team and Andrew!!

By Kai-Peter M

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Oct 28, 2019

Great course!!! The best online course I have ever taken! I enjoyed almost every day I participated in that course, really an educational treasure! It is so comprehensive and detailed at the same time. Due to the good presentation of the topics it was really understandable.

By Mayank A

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Sep 26, 2020

Very conceptual learning related to deep learning. Really appreciate the mentor who is teaching from the depth and able to clear all the concepts related to course topics. Highly recommend to those who haven't gone through all the videos and programming assignments.Thanks!

By Saif M P

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May 8, 2020

I have really learned a lot of things! It surely took 3 weeks to complete all the things, it was tough at some points, but if I didn't do this course, I might have some regrets that I didn't achieve all the knowledge. Thanks to Mr. Andrew, he is really a very good teacher.

By Mandar K

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Jul 21, 2019

Wonderful course and material. Andrew has a great way of explaining the topics in the simplest way. Although I had some issue with understanding the optimizers, I learned a great deal. However, This course needs a revamp using Tensorflow 2.0 for the tutorials :) Thank you

By Amit G

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Nov 6, 2017

there is a lot of materiel that is being discussed during the lectures, and all of it seems like it could be really relevant. I am missing a consolidated course deck - ie something like a deck of slides on all the important concepts that are being discussed, for reference.