Optimization & Operations Research Courses and Certifications

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 15

Explore advanced convex optimization techniques with Stanford's Stephen Boyd, covering key concepts and applications in electrical engineering and beyond.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 3

Explore advanced convex optimization techniques with Stanford's Stephen Boyd. Dive deep into mathematical concepts and practical applications in this comprehensive lecture series.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 5

Explore advanced optimization techniques with Professor Stephen Boyd, focusing on convex problems and their applications in engineering and beyond.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 6

Explore advanced convex optimization techniques with Stanford's Stephen Boyd. Dive deep into mathematical concepts and practical applications in this comprehensive lecture series.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - Lecture 8

Explore advanced convex optimization techniques with Stanford's Stephen Boyd, focusing on practical applications and theoretical foundations in electrical engineering and beyond.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GLOV: Guided Large Language Models as Implicit Optimizers for Vision Language Models

Discover how GLOV uses large language models to automatically optimize prompts for vision-language models, reducing manual effort and improving performance across multiple tasks and architectures.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Training Deep Neural Networks - Lecture 1

Discover the foundations of neural networks and deep learning through MIT's comprehensive introduction covering field history, core concepts, and training methodologies.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Global Data Association for Multiple Pedestrian Tracking

Explore advanced data association techniques for multi-target tracking, from GMCP to GMMCP, and a novel approach for crowd tracking using Binary Quadratic Programming and Modified Frank-Wolfe algorithm.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Kanpur

Advanced Green Manufacturing Systems

This course provides an overview of realizing Green Manufacturing Systems. Compared to conventional manufacturing process that is purely productivity driven; various strategies and applicationsare necessary to improve the ecology first focus of green man…

• YouTube
• 1 day 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Kharagpur

Constrained and Unconstrained Optimization

Comprehensive exploration of optimization techniques, covering linear and nonlinear programming, integer programming, transportation problems, and multi-objective decision making.

• YouTube
• 1 day 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

Explore the groundbreaking Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, revealing how neural networks may contain optimal sub-networks from initialization, potentially revolutionizing network efficiency and training.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MITCBMM

Introduction to Optimization

Learn optimization techniques for machine learning, including likelihood estimation, gradient descent, and regularization, with practical examples and applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cherno

2D Physics Engine Design and Code Review

Explore 2D physics engine design, API creation, and optimization techniques. Learn about pointers, spatial partitioning, and physics solvers for game development.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Steve Brunton

Sparse Nonlinear Models for Fluid Dynamics with Machine Learning and Optimization

Exploring SINDy algorithm for developing efficient nonlinear models in complex fluid flows, with applications in various fields including bluff body wakes, thermal convection, and magnetohydrodynamics.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Institute for Advanced Study

Everything You Wanted to Know About Machine Learning but Didn't Know Whom to Ask - Sanjeev Arora

Explore machine learning fundamentals, from text classification to image recognition, with insights on optimization, unsupervised learning, and language models in this comprehensive seminar.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video