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About the Course

In the fifth course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will become familiar with sequence models and their exciting applications such as speech recognition, music synthesis, chatbots, machine translation, natural language processing (NLP), and more. By the end, you will be able to build and train Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and commonly-used variants such as GRUs and LSTMs; apply RNNs to Character-level Language Modeling; gain experience with natural language processing and Word Embeddings; and use HuggingFace tokenizers and transformer models to solve different NLP tasks such as NER and Question Answering. The Deep Learning Specialization is a 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 take the definitive step in the world of AI by helping you gain the knowledge and skills to level up your career....

Top reviews

JY

Oct 29, 2018

The lectures covers lots of SOTA deep learning algorithms and the lectures are well-designed and easy to understand. The programming assignment is really good to enhance the understanding of lectures.

MK

Mar 13, 2024

Cant express how thankful I am to Andrew Ng, literally thought me from start to finish when my school didnt touch about it, learn a lot and decided to use my knowledge and apply to real world projects

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By Michael M

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Nov 2, 2018

Great course! only negative is that problems would really hold your hand. I don't think there is any way I would pass a whiteboard test on any of this (then again a course to get me to that level would have to be double this length).

By Joshua H

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Jul 20, 2020

The course covers one of the most influential developments in deep learning in recent times, and does so in a thorough way, introducing majority of the relevant mathematics and methods necessary to build a variety of sequence models.

By Jaiganesh P

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Feb 18, 2019

The course is really good if you want to get a good understanding on the basics of deep learning. It would have been great if the course had more hand's on assignments than fill in the blanks kind of assignments in ipython notebook.

By Rohit K

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Jul 7, 2019

I learnt a lot from this course and the whole specialization. I am grateful to the mentors and instructors. If coursera gives me opportunity I can also be mentor for the specialization to help the newcomers through the assignments.

By Ghassen B

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Oct 17, 2019

During the first week, I think that a deeper explanation of the matrices' dimensions throughout the NNs should be given. Indeed, this would be helpful to understand some concepts.

Apart from that, it was an awesoome course, thanks!

By Stéphane M

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Jun 22, 2018

The course was good except first week. I did not learn as much as I would like from the programming exercises of week 1. It could be nice to have 4 weeks instead of 3 for this course. Taking more time to cover the week 1 material.

By Shrishti K

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Jun 26, 2020

Everything is perfect, the teaching is excellent, the only problem is the jupyter notebook, its sometimes difficult to debug issues and takes a lot of time and is kind of vague as well in terms of application of the lectures.

By M H E

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Feb 20, 2023

Thanks to Andrew Ng and his amazing team, this course challenged my fundamental knowledge of Tensorflow and ML algorithms in the most useful way. However, I expected more applying libraries to design the NLP recent products.

By Abid O

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May 1, 2018

some topics not explained in detail. Not enough examples to understand some models completely. As an example, I didn't fully understand what are the parameters for the models, their shapes, and how they are used in the model

By Yash R

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Jan 23, 2022

Great course! But I find the transformer assignment bit difficult. I think if the implementation would be covered in a 10-15 minutes video it would be a lot more easier to understand. Thank you for the great specialisation!

By Jiachang L

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Jul 16, 2018

Overall it was pretty informational on introducing NLP to me. However, Keras was a little bit frustrating to learn at the beginning. I found out the forum was a very good resource to learn Keras syntax whenever I was stuck.

By Eric C

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Jan 12, 2020

Great course! I do feel like I'm just scratching the surface of the types of applications that I can make. I think the coding segments still hold our hands a little too much, but you can't beat the clarity of the lectures.

By Son N

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Oct 21, 2018

The course lecture is grade but I hope the assignment is better in guiding structure, something the explanation is hard to follow, and the assignment should include the transfer learning instead of using the trained model.

By Sehyun P

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Jul 21, 2023

Until chapter 4 it is straightforward to follow the lecture and the assignment, but RNN(especially NLP, and transformer chapter), it gets too difficult to follow what Andrew said and apply it to the following assignments

By Paolo S

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Jun 8, 2019

This was hard to keep up with, maybe too hard. The assignments' difficulty also was on a different level then the lectures maybe there more time should be put into the lecture videos as it was the case for DNN and RNN.

By Aida E

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Feb 21, 2018

The videos and programming exercises were very interesting and insightful. My only complain is some of notebooks for exercises include errors and it was just a time-wasting task to find the "trick" to pass the grader.

By Anshuman M

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Jul 30, 2018

The content is well captured and Andrew really helps build the required intuitions. But, the assignments are too guided. There is no room to struggle for solutions which often proves to be the main source of learning.

By Ryan Y

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Jul 15, 2021

I think the transformer programming exercise of this fifth course is not as good as the others. The methods we must implement are not clearly explained and the research on these really took me a huge amount of time.

By Prateekraj S

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Jul 28, 2020

The exercises are too short and too basic for this course specifically. The task is a great learning experience but there is not much one would struggle with in terms of difficulty as there is too much spoon feeding.

By Ivan

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Mar 18, 2019

Great video lectures, but practical assignments are a pain due to awful auto-grading system and programming expirience in Jupyter in general. Most of the time you'll be searching for an error that isn't really there.

By Fabio R

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Oct 31, 2020

Excellent course, excellent lecturer. Unfortunately some of the test data (week3/lab/trigger word detection/XY_dev/* CANNOT BE DOWNLOADED ... The programming lab sections are nice - sometime a bit too helped ... ;)

By Chegva Y

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Dec 29, 2021

It is better to talk more about bi-directional RNN and give assightment about it before week three and week four. Moreover, it is also better to give two more weeks to talk more about the material in week 3 and 4.

By Jeffrey D

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Mar 11, 2020

Programming exercises did show you quite a bit, but got complex enough that most of my time was spent reading and understanding the preamble than doing any programming. That being said it delivered on the promise.

By Salamat B

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Sep 24, 2018

Course content is really good! However, I found it quite difficult to truly understand deep learning algorithms. However, it provides good glimpse of of sequence models and intuitions behind various useful models.

By Georges B

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Feb 20, 2018

Great course and material, Andrew NG really know who to explain difficult subjects in an intuitive way. However, the course seems that it still needs some work (there are some bugs in the lectures and assignments)