Lectures - Edition Nov/Dec 2021


Week 1

November 4, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture introduces the structure of the Deep Learning course, and gives a short overview of the history and motivation of Deep Learning.

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November 4, 2021 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session

This tutorial introduces the practical sessions, the TA organizer team, etc. Afterwards, we will discuss the PyTorch machine learning framework, and introduce you to the basic concepts of Tensors, computation graphs and GPU computation. We will continue with a small hands-on tutorial of building your own, first neural network in PyTorch.

We also provide a crash-course for working with the Lisa cluster, and how to setup your account for Lisa.

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November 5, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lectures introduces basic concepts for Deep Feedforward Networks such linear and nonlinear modules, gradient-based learning and the backpropagation algorithm.

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Week 2

November 11, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series discusses advanced optimizers, initialization, normalization and hyperparameter tuning.

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November 11, 2021 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will discuss the role of activation functions in a neural network, and take a closer look at the optimization issues a poorly designed activation function can have.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 1, lecture content and more.

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November 12, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series discusses advanced optimizers, initialization, normalization and hyperparameter tuning.

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Week 3

November 18, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series covers convolutional neural networks for image processing.

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November 18, 2020 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will discuss the importance of proper parameter initialization in deep neural networks, and how we can find a suitable one for our network. In addition, we will review the optimizers SGD and Adam, and compare them on complex loss surfaces.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 1, lecture content and more.

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November 19, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series covers modern ConvNet architecture.

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Week 4

November 25, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series covers Recurrent Neural Networks

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November 25, 2020 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will implement three popular, modern ConvNet architectures: GoogleNet, ResNet, and DenseNet. We will compare them on the CIFAR10 dataset, and discuss the advantages that made them popular and successful across many tasks.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 2, lecture content and more.

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November 26, 2021 | 13.00-15.00 | Online Lecture

Petar Veličković lecture on Graph Neural Networks.

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Week 5

December 2, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

Ivona's lecture on Attention and Transformers.

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December 2, 2020 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will discuss the implementation of Graph Neural Networks. In the first part of the tutorial, we will implement the GCN and GAT layer ourselves. In the second part, we use PyTorch Geometric to look at node-level, edge-level and graph-level tasks.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 2, lecture content and more.

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December 3, 2021 | 15.00-17.00 | Lecture

This lecture series discusses Generative Adversarial Networks.

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Week 6

December 9, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

This lecture series introduces the framework of variational inference and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs).

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December 9, 2020 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will discuss the relatively new breakthrough architecture: Transformers. We will start from the basics of attention and multi-head attention, and build our own Transformer. We will perform experiments on sequence-to-sequence tasks and set anomaly detection.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 3, lecture content and more.

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December 10, 2021 | 15.00-17.00 | Online Lecture

Deep Learning Generalization.

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Week 7

December 16, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

Geometry and Structure Regularized Deep Learning.

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December 16, 2020 | 13.00-15.00 | Tutorial session + TA Q&A

In this tutorial, we will discuss deep convolutional autoencoders and their applications. In the practical and lecture, you will see variational autoencoders (VAE), which add a stochastic part to vanilla autoencoders. Both have their advantages and applications, of which we visit image retrieval and compression for the vanilla auotoencoder.

After the presentation, there will by a TA session for Q&A for assignment 3, lecture content and more.

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December 17, 2021 | 11.00-13.00 | Lecture

Details will follow soon.

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