Tentative Schedule

Date Content Reading Slides and Notes
Intro
1/8 Th Introduction, machine learning review chapter 1-4 of Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
Lecture 1, Lecture 1 (annotated)
1/15 Th Fully-connected neural networks, optimization algorithms, optimization techniques chapter 5, 6, 12 of Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al Lecture 2 , Lecture 2 (annotated), scribed notes on Clarke differential, positive homogeneity and auto-balancing
1/22 Th Advanced optimizers, optimization techniques Chapter 12 of Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al. , He et al. on Kaiming initialization, blog of escaping saddle points, blog on how to escape saddle points efficiently Lecture 3 , Lecture 3 (annotated), scribed notes on Kaiming initialization
1/29 Th Introduction to convolutional neural networks, advanced convolutional neural networks, Recurrent neural networks, LSTM Chapter 7,8, 9, 10 of Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al. Lecture 4, Lecture 4 (annotated)
2/5 Th Attention mmechnism, deep learning theory (approximation) Chapter 11 of Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al. Chapter 1,2 of Matus Telgarsky's notes Lecture 5,
2/12 Th
2/19 Tu
2/26 Th
3/5 Th
3/12 Th Project Presentation (Zoom)