CSE 493G1/599G1: Deep Learning

Class: T/Th 10:00-11:20am, CSE2 G20



Teaser of Deep Learning

About the course

Deep Learning has become ubiquitous in our society, with applications in search, image understanding, apps, mapping, medicine, drones, and self-driving cars. Core to many of these applications are visual recognition tasks such as image classification, localization and detection and language understanding tasks like summarization, text generation and reasoning. Recent developments in neural network (aka “deep learning”) approaches have greatly advanced the performance of these state-of-the-art systems.


This course is a deep dive into the details of deep learning algorithms, architectures, tasks, metrics, with a focus on learning end-to-end models. We will begin by grounding deep learning advancements particularly for the task of image classification; later, we will generalize these ideas to many other tasks. During the 10-week course, students will learn to implement and train their own neural networks and gain a detailed understanding of cutting-edge research in deep learning. Additionally, the final assignment will give them the opportunity to train and apply multi-million parameter networks on real-world vision problems of their choice. Through multiple hands-on assignments and the final course project, students will acquire the toolset for setting up deep learning tasks and practical engineering tricks for training and fine-tuning deep neural networks.

Important Links

Canvas: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1665829/

Gradescope: https://www.gradescope.com/courses/625219 (Code: 5JK2BN)

EdStem: https://edstem.org/us/courses/47849/

Course Staff + Office Hours

Instructors
Teaching Assistants
Ali Farhadi
Aditya Kusupati
Aaron Walsman
Matt Wallingford
Vivek Ramanujan
Reza Salehi
Ali Farhadi
Aditya Kusupati
Aaron Walsman
Matt Wallingford
Vivek Ramanujan
Reza Salehi
ali@cs.
washington.edu
Hours: Thursday,
Hours: Friday,
Hours: Tuesday,
Hours: Monday
Hours: Wednesday,
11:30am - 1:30pm
2:00pm - 4:00pm
3:00pm - 5:00pm
3:00pm - 5:00pm
4:30pm - 6:30pm
CSE2 276
CSE 678
CSE2 274
CSE2 374
CSE2 153
kusupati@cs.
washington.edu
awalsman@cs.
washington.edu
mcw244@cs.
washington.edu
ramanv@cs.
washington.edu
mrsalehi@cs.
washington.edu

Prerequisites

Linear Algebra, Calculus and Statistics. While it is recommended to have some prior background in Machine Learning, the necessary fundamentals will be covered as part of this class.


Course format

The class format will be a combination of lectures, 3 assignments, 3 in-class quizzes, and a course project.