The course "Mastering Neural Networks and Model Regularization" dives deep into the fundamentals and advanced techniques of neural networks, from understanding perceptron-based models to implementing cutting-edge convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This course offers hands-on experience with real-world datasets, such as MNIST, and focuses on practical applications using the PyTorch framework. Learners will explore key regularization techniques like L1, L2, and drop-out to reduce model overfitting, as well as decision tree pruning.

Mastering Neural Networks and Model Regularization

Mastering Neural Networks and Model Regularization
This course is part of Applied Machine Learning Specialization

Instructor: Erhan Guven
Access provided by American University of Bahrain
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Intermediate level
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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Build neural networks from scratch and apply them to real-world datasets like MNIST.
Apply back-propagation for optimizing neural network models and understand computational graphs.
Utilize L1, L2, drop-out regularization, and decision tree pruning to reduce model overfitting.
Implement convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and tensors using PyTorch for image and audio processing.
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Taught in English
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