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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

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

CM

Dec 23, 2017

Exceptional Course, the Hyper parameters explanations are excellent every tip and advice provided help me so much to build better models, I also really liked the introduction of Tensor Flow

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By Akhtar H

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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

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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

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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

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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.

By Tri W G

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Mar 10, 2018

Not so much different with the materials in the Machine Learning course from Prof. Andrew Ng itself. If you don't have the time to finish the ML course, then you should take this one.

By Shawn E

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Dec 19, 2022

Great content but there are major problems with the final assignment. The one-hot encoding function tests force the output tensor dims to be different than what a later cell expects.

By Md A J

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Sep 29, 2020

The mathematical explanations were very good. But the coding task is always left to do at once. If it can be set after the corresponding videos as a module it would be great I think.

By Alejandro N

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Sep 8, 2020

It is an excellent course. The only weird thing it is that it uses Tensorflow 1 instead of 2. I get it why is it done, but perhaps it would have been more useful to keep using numpy.

By Jorge L M B

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Jun 24, 2020

Awesome material, and everything is well explained. I would've liked that the programming exercises were a little more challenging, though going through the code shines a nice light.

By Vishnupriya V

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Jun 22, 2019

As always Andrew Ng's clearly explains all the concepts along with practical programs. I would strongly recommend doing this course for a good solid understanding of neural networks.

By Ivan

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Mar 14, 2019

While video lectures are very well explain subject matter, practical assignments are pretty frustrating since most of the time you will be battling jupyter notebook and auto grader.

By Alejandro E

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Feb 19, 2018

Very good course, although it'd be awesome if Andrew went over the backprop associated with Batch Normalization and perhaps a programming example of using Batch norm on my test set.

By Emre E

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Oct 9, 2020

I loved the course but the tensorflow implementation was a bit weak, it passed in just 15 min video. I recommend this course but as i told before tensorflow migration is a problem.

By Jeroen V

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Nov 14, 2018

The graded functions could be a bit more free form, forcing you to think more about it. I sometimes feel that I'm more solving the "template", than I am thinking about neural nets.

By Tibor S

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Aug 6, 2018

Personally, I would like to have more programming exercises on the things that are taught (Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization) in order to compare how different techniques work.

By Andrew R

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Apr 20, 2018

Just enough explanation of material to get started on using DNNs for my own tasks. Assignments are easy, though provide good explanation of what is occurring in each line of code.

By Ugo G N

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Oct 10, 2017

It's okay. It's get a bit hairy with all the notation and varied intuition, but it follows suit and is not impossible to understand! Thank you Dr. Ng, I look forward to more.

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By Francisco F

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Sep 24, 2022

The course videos are very well organized and easy to understand. I would like to see more coding exercises, and a little more in-depth explanation of the Tensorflow/Keras API.

By Luisa F V C

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Aug 5, 2020

You learn about improving your capacity in the modeling and logic in your neural networks. This course is full of tips and tricks very important in your career in deep learning.

By Hind A b

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Mar 5, 2020

explained very well, interesting and engaging assignments, sometimes I get lost with all the mathematical representation and details but overall very good course I recommend it.

By Mustafa S Ç

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Oct 22, 2019

Everything was great. Every peace of information scratch in my mine. I learned a lots from course.

In the last part; Tensorflow has dramaticly changed but content didn't renewed.

By Pavel B

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Dec 29, 2018

everything you need to do is given in form of the hint. That was a nice course in terms of the explanations, but too easy in terms of applying it in a programming assignments.

By Abhishek Y

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Jan 15, 2023

Amazing content. Learned a lot. The math was a bit hard to keep up with at first but the intuitions behind them were well explained, so that the students can understand better.

By Carlos M

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Feb 27, 2018

Great for the most part, but the TensorFlow assignments felt flat and "incomplete." I ended up using Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & Tensorflow to bridge the gap.

By Scott V

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Nov 4, 2017

There were a few errors in the final assignment and grading is very slow. That being said, the course was informative and provided some additional "tools" to add to my toolbox.