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Sequence Models

This course is part of Deep Learning Specialization

Instructors: Andrew Ng

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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There are 4 modules in this 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.

Discover recurrent neural networks, a type of model that performs extremely well on temporal data, and several of its variants, including LSTMs, GRUs and Bidirectional RNNs,

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12 videos5 readings1 assignment3 programming assignments

12 videosTotal 112 minutes

Why Sequence Models?3 minutes
Notation9 minutes
Recurrent Neural Network Model17 minutes
Backpropagation Through Time6 minutes
Different Types of RNNs10 minutes
Language Model and Sequence Generation12 minutes
Sampling Novel Sequences9 minutes
Vanishing Gradients with RNNs6 minutes
Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)17 minutes
Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)10 minutes
Bidirectional RNN8 minutes
Deep RNNs5 minutes

5 readingsTotal 10 minutes

Join the DeepLearning.AI Forum to ask questions, get support, or share amazing ideas!2 minutes
Clarifications about Upcoming Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) Video1 minute
Clarifications about Upcoming Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Video1 minute
Lecture Notes W11 minute
(Optional) Downloading your Notebook, Downloading your Workspace and Refreshing your Workspace5 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 50 minutes

Recurrent Neural Networks 50 minutes

3 programming assignmentsTotal 540 minutes

Building your Recurrent Neural Network - Step by Step180 minutes
Dinosaur Island-Character-Level Language Modeling 180 minutes
Jazz Improvisation with LSTM180 minutes

Natural language processing with deep learning is a powerful combination. Using word vector representations and embedding layers, train recurrent neural networks with outstanding performance across a wide variety of applications, including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and neural machine translation.

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10 videos2 readings1 assignment2 programming assignments

10 videosTotal 99 minutes

Word Representation10 minutes
Using Word Embeddings9 minutes
Properties of Word Embeddings11 minutes
Embedding Matrix4 minutes
Learning Word Embeddings10 minutes
Word2Vec13 minutes
Negative Sampling12 minutes
GloVe Word Vectors11 minutes
Sentiment Classification8 minutes
Debiasing Word Embeddings11 minutes

2 readingsTotal 2 minutes

Clarifications about Upcoming GloVe Word Vectors Video 1 minute
Lecture Notes W21 minute

1 assignmentTotal 50 minutes

Natural Language Processing & Word Embeddings 50 minutes

2 programming assignmentsTotal 360 minutes

Operations on Word Vectors - Debiasing180 minutes
Emojify180 minutes

Augment your sequence models using an attention mechanism, an algorithm that helps your model decide where to focus its attention given a sequence of inputs. Then, explore speech recognition and how to deal with audio data.

What's included

10 videos2 readings1 assignment2 programming assignments

10 videosTotal 98 minutes

Basic Models6 minutes
Picking the Most Likely Sentence9 minutes
Beam Search12 minutes
Refinements to Beam Search10 minutes
Error Analysis in Beam Search10 minutes
Bleu Score (Optional)16 minutes
Attention Model Intuition10 minutes
Attention Model12 minutes
Speech Recognition9 minutes
Trigger Word Detection5 minutes

2 readingsTotal 11 minutes

Clarifications about Upcoming Attention Model Video 10 minutes
Lecture Notes W31 minute

1 assignmentTotal 50 minutes

Sequence Models & Attention Mechanism 50 minutes

2 programming assignmentsTotal 360 minutes

Neural Machine Translation180 minutes
Trigger Word Detection180 minutes

What's included

5 videos5 readings1 assignment1 programming assignment3 ungraded labs

5 videosTotal 42 minutes

Transformer Network Intuition5 minutes
Self-Attention12 minutes
Multi-Head Attention8 minutes
Transformer Network14 minutes
Conclusion and Thank You!3 minutes

5 readingsTotal 33 minutes

Lecture Notes W41 minute
[IMPORTANT] Reminder about end of access to Lab Notebooks2 minutes
References10 minutes
Acknowledgments10 minutes
(Optional) Opportunity to Mentor Other Learners10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 50 minutes

Transformers 50 minutes

1 programming assignmentTotal 180 minutes

Transformers Architecture with TensorFlow180 minutes

3 ungraded labsTotal 180 minutes

Transformer Pre-processing60 minutes
Transformer Network Application: Named-Entity Recognition60 minutes
Transformer Network Application: Question Answering60 minutes

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Reviewed on 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

Reviewed on Jun 12, 2019

A really joyful introduction in the Sequence Models, such as RNNs, LSTM etc. Sometimes the assignments got a little hard and with patience and help from forums, it gets achievable! Thanks again! :D

Reviewed on Jan 25, 2019

This was a tough one. The specialization is well structured and slowly progresses in terms of complexity. Having worked on RNN, i thought I would ace the projects. Different story though at the end

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