Kursöversikt

The purpose with this course is to give a thorough introduction to deep learning, also known as deep neural networks. Over the last few years, deep machine learning has dramatically changed the state of the art performance in various fields including speech-recognition, computer vision and reinforcement learning (used, e.g., to learn how to play Go). We focus initially on basic principles regarding how these networks are constructed and trained, we then move on to study the involved optimisation problems in more detail and finally we cover a range of more advanced topics including generative adversarial networks (GANs). The overall objective is to provide a solid understanding of how and why deep machine learning is useful, as well as the skills to apply them to solve problems of practical importance.