In the second course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will open the deep learning black box to understand the processes that drive performance and generate good results systematically.
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
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Discover and experiment with a variety of different initialization methods, apply L2 regularization and dropout to avoid model overfitting, then apply gradient checking to identify errors in a fraud detection model.
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Develop your deep learning toolbox by adding more advanced optimizations, random minibatching, and learning rate decay scheduling to speed up your models.
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Explore TensorFlow, a deep learning framework that allows you to build neural networks quickly and easily, then train a neural network on a TensorFlow dataset.
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Reviewed on Oct 20, 2017
loved it. the structure of the course, the assignments, tutorials were great!particularly, the tensorflow tutorial was a hit!!Cheers to Andrew who made it look much easier that I thought it would be!
Reviewed on Oct 9, 2019
I really enjoyed this course. Many details are given here that are crucial to gain experience and tips on things that looks easy at first sight but are important for a faster ML project implementation
Reviewed on Oct 23, 2017
Assignment in week 2 could not tell the difference between 'a-=b' and 'a=a-b' and marked the former as incorrect even though they are the same and gave the same output. Other than that, a great course
Recommended if you're interested in Data Science
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