Fall 2017

SysEng 6213 Deep Learning and Advanced Neural Networks

Dr. Cihan Dagli
229 Engineering Management Building

Missouri University of Science and Technology
Phone: (573) 647-9125

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Perspective


The purpose of the course is to demonstrate the use of deep learning and advance neural networks in the design of cyber physical complex adaptive systems. Machine learning basics, deep feed forward networks, regularization for deep learning, optimization for training deep models, convolutional networks, recurrent and recursive nets, practical application methodology, vision and natural language processing applications are the topics covered.
Lectures


Wednesdays7:00-9:30 PM US Central Time
Lectures are webcasted from Missouri S&T Global- St. Louis and through Zoom on Internet. On campus students will connect to St. Louis from the class room at S&T.

Grading
Take Home Exams: 40 points
Homework: 30 points
Final Paper: 30 points
Texts
Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, MIT Press 2016, ISBN 9780262035613

Software
Tensor-flow www.tensorflow.org and Python www.python.org


Lecture Schedule

Week 1 August 23, 2017
Lecture Title: Multi-Layer Perceptron

Week 2 August 30, 2017
Lecture Title: Machine Learning
Week 3 September 6, 2017
Lecture Title: Introduction to Tensor Flow and Python
Week 4 September 13, 2017
Lecture Title: Deep Feed Forward Networks

Week 5 September 20, 2017
Lecture Title: Regularization for Deep Learning

Week 6 September 27, 2017
Lecture Title: Optimization for Training Deep Models

Week 7 October 4, 2017
Lecture Title: Convolutional Networks

Week 8 October 11, 2017
Lecture Title: Sequence Modeling: Recurrent and Recursive Nets

Week 9 October18, 2017
Lecture Title: Practical Methodology

Week 10 October 25, 2017
Lecture Title: Applications


Week 11 November 1, 2017
Lecture Title: Vision Applications

Week 12 November 8, 2017
Lecture Title: Vision Applications

Week 13 November 15, 2017
Lecture Title: Applications in Natural language Processing

Week 14 November 22, 2017
Lecture Title: Thanksgiving Vacation
Week 15 November 29, 2017
Lecture Title: Applications in Natural language Processing

Week 16 December 6, 2017
Lecture Title: Deepa Learning Research, Journal Paper Submissions and Presentations