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Gradient Descent and the Backpropagation Algorithm

Alfredo Canziani via YouTube

Overview

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This course explains gradient descent and backpropagation for training parametrised neural networks, including derivations through nonlinear functions and weighted sums. It also demonstrates backpropagation in PyTorch and discusses representation learning and multilayer architectures.

Syllabus

– Supervised learning
– Parametrised models
– Block diagram
– Loss function, average loss
– Gradient descent
– Traditional neural nets
– Backprop through a non-linear function
– Backprop through a weighted sum
– PyTorch implementation
– Backprop through a functional module
– Backprop through a functional module
– Backprop in practice
– Learning representations
– Shallow networks are universal approximators!
– Multilayer architectures == compositional structure of data

Taught by

Alfredo Canziani

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