_DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS AND POLICIES, WE HAVE POSTPONED THIS CLASS
UNTIL THE FALL, EXACT DATES TO BE DETERMINED. __FOR INQUIRIES,
EMAIL: NATALIE.KLYM@VECTORINSTITUTE.AI_
VECTOR INSTITUTE AI CERTIFICATE COURSES FOR INDUSTRY
DEEP LEARNING I: NEURAL NETWORKS AND SUPERVISED LEARNING
AVAILABLE TO VECTOR INSTITUTE SPONSORS
[https://vectorinstitute.ai/#partners] ONLY
FOR REGISTRATION INQUIRIES, EMAIL: NATALIE.KLYM@VECTORINSTITUTE.AI
DATE: Mar 17 - May 5, 2020 (Classes run Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.),
final assignment due May 19, 2020
LOCATION: Vector Institute, MaRS Building, 661 University Ave Suite
710, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1
INSTRUCTORS: Alireza Makhzani
[https://vectorinstitute.ai/team/alireza-makhzani/], Mengye Ren
[https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mren/]
FEES: TOTAL COURSE FEE: $5,000
(A deposit of $250 will be collected upon registration. $4,750 will
be invoiced upon course commencement.)
Must read: Terms and Conditions
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pgRLYR68Y5kGWw0qIMk5WOLC1Sn0Qz4q]
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Deep Learning I: Neural Networks and Supervised
Learning course provides an overview of the foundational ideas and
recent advances in neural net algorithms with a focus on supervised
learning. Created by Roger Grosse
[https://vectorinstitute.ai/team/roger-grosse/], Canada CIFAR AI
Chair & Vector Faculty Member, the course provides participants
with an in-depth understanding of how algorithms behave, how to
derive algorithms mathematically, implement them from scratch, build
and troubleshoot a neural network, and confidently construct a
chat-bot using neural networks. The curriculum includes industry
discussions to help participants understand how to deploy neural
networks in their organizations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
* Employees working as/or having experience as Data Scientists, Data
Engineers, machine learning (ML) Engineers, ML Researchers or closely
related roles, and who meet the criteria outlined in the
prerequisites.
* Participants are responsible for ensuring they have the required
background for the course. We have provided a short self-assessment
quiz
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/12-MvbwSTg7ltPF9bLt6Ui-v_L0ksCYdI/view].
AVAILABLE TO VECTOR INSTITUTE SPONSORS
[https://vectorinstitute.ai/#partners] ONLY
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this course participants will be able to:
* Recognize use cases and applications of Deep Learning in industry
* Confidently construct a neural network solution at work to create
value or solve a problem
* Confidently construct a chat-bot using neural networks
* Recognize errors, trouble-shoot and debug errors in a neural
network
* Conversationally describe what they did in this course to a
technical and non-technical audience at work
PREREQUISITES
* Multivariable Calculus
* Linear Algebra
* Probability and Statistics
* Experience with ML algorithms, such as logistic regression,
decision trees, nearest neighbors
* Programming experience (Python recommended)
COURSE LOAD
Participants can expect to spend a total of 10-15 hours per week
attending Lectures, Tutorials, Industry Discussions, and completing
assignments.
INSTRUCTORS
ALIREZA MAKHZANI
[https://vectorinstitute.ai/team/alireza-makhzani/] is a Vector
Faculty Member and CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair. Alireza
completed his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the
University of Toronto in 2017. His most recent research focuses on
generative models and their applications in semi-supervised learning;
neural networks that can learn sparse representations of data; and
deep reinforcement learning algorithms. During his PhD, he interned
for the Google Brain Team in 2015 where he worked on generative models
of images; and Google DeepMind in 2016 where he worked on developing
deep reinforcement learning algorithms for the StarCraft II game.
Alireza completed his Master’s at the University of Toronto in 2012
and received his Bachelor’s degree from Amirkabir University of
Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in Iran in 2010.
MENGYE REN [https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mren/] is a PhD student at
VECTOR AND IN THE MACHINE LEARNING GROUP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER
SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. His academic advisor is Prof.
Richard Zemel [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zemel/]. He also works as a
research scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) TORONTO,
directed by Prof. Raquel Urtasun
[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~urtasun/], doing self-driving related
research. During his undergrad, he studied Engineering Science with a
focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Toronto. He is originally from Shanghai, China.
COURSE OUTLINE & SCHEDULE
_Note that classes run Mar 17-May 5, 2020 with final assignment due
May 19, 2020._
WEEK 1: TUESDAY, MAR 17/20
10:00-12:00 Lecture: Introduction (Alireza
Makhzani)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Linear Models (Alireza
Makhzani)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 Industry Discussion: Andrew Brown,
CIBC
1:00-2:00 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 2: Tuesday, Mar 24/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Multilayer Perceptrons
(Alireza Makhzani)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Backpropagation
(Alireza Makhzani)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 Industry Discussion: Andrew Brown,
CIBC
1:00-2:00 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 3: Tuesday, Mar 31/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Distributed
Representations (Mengye Ren)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Automatic
Differentiation (Mengye Ren)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 4: Tuesday, Apr 7/10
10:00-12:00 Lecture: Optimization I (Mengye
Ren)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Optimization II (Mengye
Ren)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 Industry Discussion: Andrew
Brown, CIBC
1:00-2:00 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 5: Tuesday, Apr 14/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Convolutional Networks
(Mengye Ren)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Image Classification
(Mengye Ren)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 6: Tuesday, Apr 21/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Optimizing the Input
(Mengye Ren)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Generalization (Mengye
Ren)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 7: Tuesday, Apr 28/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Recurrent Neural Nets
(Mengye Ren)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Exploding and Vanishing
Gradients (Mengye Ren)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Tutorial: TA TBA
Week 8: Tuesday, May 5/20
10:00-11:00 Lecture: Attention (Alireza
Makhzani)
11:00-12:00 Lecture: Transformers (Alireza
Makhzani)
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:00 Industry Discussion: Andrew Brown,
CIBC
1:00-2:00 Tutorial: TA TBA
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