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Advanced Learning Algorithms

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What you'll learn

  • Build and train a neural network with TensorFlow to perform multi-class classification

  • Apply best practices for machine learning development so that your models generalize to data and tasks in the real world

  • Build and use decision trees and tree ensemble methods, including random forests and boosted trees

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There are 4 modules in this course

In the second course of the Machine Learning Specialization, you will:

β€’ Build and train a neural network with TensorFlow to perform multi-class classification β€’ Apply best practices for machine learning development so that your models generalize to data and tasks in the real world β€’ Build and use decision trees and tree ensemble methods, including random forests and boosted trees The Machine Learning Specialization is a foundational online program created in collaboration between DeepLearning.AI and Stanford Online. In this beginner-friendly program, you will learn the fundamentals of machine learning and how to use these techniques to build real-world AI applications. This Specialization is taught by Andrew Ng, an AI visionary who has led critical research at Stanford University and groundbreaking work at Google Brain, Baidu, and Landing.AI to advance the AI field. This 3-course Specialization is an updated and expanded version of Andrew’s pioneering Machine Learning course, rated 4.9 out of 5 and taken by over 4.8 million learners since it launched in 2012. It provides a broad introduction to modern machine learning, including supervised learning (multiple linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, and decision trees), unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems), and some of the best practices used in Silicon Valley for artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation (evaluating and tuning models, taking a data-centric approach to improving performance, and more.) By the end of this Specialization, you will have mastered key theoretical concepts and gained the practical know-how to quickly and powerfully apply machine learning to challenging real-world problems. If you’re looking to break into AI or build a career in machine learning, the new Machine Learning Specialization is the best place to start.

This week, you'll learn about neural networks and how to use them for classification tasks. You'll use the TensorFlow framework to build a neural network with just a few lines of code. Then, dive deeper by learning how to code up your own neural network in Python, "from scratch". Optionally, you can learn more about how neural network computations are implemented efficiently using parallel processing (vectorization).

What's included

17 videos1 reading4 assignments1 programming assignment3 ungraded labs

17 videosβ€’Total 140 minutes
  • Welcome!β€’3 minutes
  • Neurons and the brainβ€’11 minutes
  • Demand Predictionβ€’16 minutes
  • Example: Recognizing Imagesβ€’7 minutes
  • Neural network layerβ€’10 minutes
  • More complex neural networksβ€’8 minutes
  • Inference: making predictions (forward propagation)β€’5 minutes
  • Inference in Codeβ€’7 minutes
  • Data in TensorFlowβ€’11 minutes
  • Building a neural networkβ€’8 minutes
  • Forward prop in a single layerβ€’5 minutes
  • General implementation of forward propagationβ€’8 minutes
  • Is there a path to AGI?β€’11 minutes
  • How neural networks are implemented efficientlyβ€’4 minutes
  • Matrix multiplicationβ€’9 minutes
  • Matrix multiplication rulesβ€’10 minutes
  • Matrix multiplication codeβ€’6 minutes
1 readingβ€’Total 2 minutes
  • Join the DeepLearning.AI Forum to ask questions, get support, or share amazing ideas!β€’2 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 40 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Neural networks intuitionβ€’10 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Neural network modelβ€’10 minutes
  • Practice quiz: TensorFlow implementationβ€’10 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Neural network implementation in Pythonβ€’10 minutes
1 programming assignmentβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Practice Lab: Neural Networks for Binary Classificationβ€’180 minutes
3 ungraded labsβ€’Total 80 minutes
  • Neurons and Layersβ€’10 minutes
  • Coffee Roasting in Tensorflowβ€’10 minutes
  • CoffeeRoastingNumPyβ€’60 minutes

This week, you'll learn how to train your model in TensorFlow, and also learn about other important activation functions (besides the sigmoid function), and where to use each type in a neural network. You'll also learn how to go beyond binary classification to multiclass classification (3 or more categories). Multiclass classification will introduce you to a new activation function and a new loss function. Optionally, you can also learn about the difference between multiclass classification and multi-label classification. You'll learn about the Adam optimizer, and why it's an improvement upon regular gradient descent for neural network training. Finally, you will get a brief introduction to other layer types besides the one you've seen thus far.

What's included

15 videos4 assignments1 programming assignment5 ungraded labs

15 videosβ€’Total 140 minutes
  • TensorFlow implementationβ€’4 minutes
  • Training Detailsβ€’13 minutes
  • Alternatives to the sigmoid activationβ€’5 minutes
  • Choosing activation functionsβ€’8 minutes
  • Why do we need activation functions?β€’6 minutes
  • Multiclassβ€’3 minutes
  • Softmaxβ€’12 minutes
  • Neural Network with Softmax outputβ€’7 minutes
  • Improved implementation of softmaxβ€’9 minutes
  • Classification with multiple outputs (Optional)β€’4 minutes
  • Advanced Optimizationβ€’6 minutes
  • Additional Layer Typesβ€’9 minutes
  • What is a derivative? (Optional)β€’23 minutes
  • Computation graph (Optional)β€’19 minutes
  • Larger neural network example (Optional)β€’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 120 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Neural Network Trainingβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Activation Functionsβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Multiclass Classificationβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Additional Neural Network Conceptsβ€’30 minutes
1 programming assignmentβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Practice Lab: Neural Networks for Multiclass classification β€’180 minutes
5 ungraded labsβ€’Total 195 minutes
  • ReLU activationβ€’60 minutes
  • Softmaxβ€’60 minutes
  • Multiclassβ€’15 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Derivativesβ€’30 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Back propagationβ€’30 minutes

This week you'll learn best practices for training and evaluating your learning algorithms to improve performance. This will cover a wide range of useful advice about the machine learning lifecycle, tuning your model, and also improving your training data.

What's included

17 videos3 assignments1 programming assignment2 ungraded labs

17 videosβ€’Total 174 minutes
  • Deciding what to try nextβ€’4 minutes
  • Evaluating a modelβ€’10 minutes
  • Model selection and training/cross validation/test setsβ€’14 minutes
  • Diagnosing bias and varianceβ€’11 minutes
  • Regularization and bias/varianceβ€’10 minutes
  • Establishing a baseline level of performanceβ€’9 minutes
  • Learning curvesβ€’12 minutes
  • Deciding what to try next revisitedβ€’9 minutes
  • Bias/variance and neural networksβ€’11 minutes
  • Iterative loop of ML developmentβ€’8 minutes
  • Error analysisβ€’8 minutes
  • Adding dataβ€’14 minutes
  • Transfer learning: using data from a different taskβ€’12 minutes
  • Full cycle of a machine learning projectβ€’9 minutes
  • Fairness, bias, and ethicsβ€’10 minutes
  • Error metrics for skewed datasetsβ€’12 minutes
  • Trading off precision and recallβ€’12 minutes
3 assignmentsβ€’Total 90 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Advice for applying machine learningβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Bias and varianceβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Machine learning development processβ€’30 minutes
1 programming assignmentβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Practice Lab: Advice for Applying Machine Learningβ€’180 minutes
2 ungraded labsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Model Evaluation and Selectionβ€’30 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Diagnosing Bias and Varianceβ€’30 minutes

This week, you'll learn about a practical and very commonly used learning algorithm the decision tree. You'll also learn about variations of the decision tree, including random forests and boosted trees (XGBoost).

What's included

14 videos2 readings3 assignments1 programming assignment2 ungraded labs

14 videosβ€’Total 144 minutes
  • Decision tree modelβ€’7 minutes
  • Learning Processβ€’11 minutes
  • Measuring purityβ€’8 minutes
  • Choosing a split: Information Gainβ€’12 minutes
  • Putting it togetherβ€’9 minutes
  • Using one-hot encoding of categorical featuresβ€’5 minutes
  • Continuous valued featuresβ€’7 minutes
  • Regression Trees (optional)β€’10 minutes
  • Using multiple decision treesβ€’4 minutes
  • Sampling with replacementβ€’4 minutes
  • Random forest algorithmβ€’6 minutes
  • XGBoostβ€’7 minutes
  • When to use decision treesβ€’6 minutes
  • Andrew Ng and Chris Manning on Natural Language Processingβ€’47 minutes
2 readingsβ€’Total 4 minutes
  • [IMPORTANT] Reminder about end of access to Lab Notebooksβ€’2 minutes
  • Acknowledgementsβ€’2 minutes
3 assignmentsβ€’Total 90 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Decision treesβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Decision tree learningβ€’30 minutes
  • Practice quiz: Tree ensemblesβ€’30 minutes
1 programming assignmentβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Practice Lab: Decision Treesβ€’180 minutes
2 ungraded labsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Decision Treesβ€’30 minutes
  • Optional Lab: Tree Ensemblesβ€’30 minutes

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One of the best course for Learning Neural Network Fundamentals also dive into the advance algorithm like Decision trees,Random forest or XGB Algorithm.

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The course provides an excellent introduction to widely used machine learning concepts, including Neural Networks. While the material can be challenging, it is presented in a digestible manner.

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Another fantastic course by Andrew Ng! He covers neural networks, decision trees, random forest, and XGBoost models really well. I like that he shares his intuition behind every concept he explains.

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