Lectures

The accompanying material for each lecture is posted here.

Lecture 1: Introduction

Origins of deep learning, course goals, overview of machine-learning paradigms, intro to computational acceleration.

Lecture 2: Supervised learning

Supervised learning problem statement, data sets, hypothesis classes, loss functions, basic examples of supervised machine learning models, adding non-linear...

Lecture 3: Neural Networks

Linear and multilayer Perceptron, loss functions, activation functions, pooling, weight sharing, convolutional layers, gradient descent, backpropagation.

Lecture 4: Training Neural Networks

Approximation, estimation and optimization errors, regularization, loss surface curvature, descent-based optimization methods, second-order methods.

Lecture 5: Sequence Models

RNN model, input-output sequences relationships, non-sequential input, layered RNN, backpropagation through time, word embeddings, attention, transformers.

Lecture 6: Unsupervised Learning and Generative Models

Subspace models, autoencoders, unsupervised loss, generative adversarial nets, domain adaptation.

Lecture 7: Reinforcement Learning

Markov decision process, policies, rewards, value functions, the Bellman equation, q-learning, policy learning, actor-critic learning, AutoML.

Lecture 8: Intro to Parallel Architectures

Parallelism and multithreading, execution of DL tasks, CPU vs. GPU architectures, CUDA programming model.

Lecture 9: Parallel Architectures for Training

NVidia GPU architectures, memory hierarchy, CUDA threads, unified memory, optimizations for CNNs, hardware architectures for training.

Lecture 10: Parallel Architectures for Inference

Challenges of inference, low-bit representations, pruning, GPU vs FPGA and ASIC, TPU architecture.

Lecture 11: Learning on Non-Euclidean Domains

Toeplitz operators, graphs, fields, gradients, divergence, Laplace-Beltrami operator, non-euclidean convolution, spectral and spatial CNN for graphs.

Lecture 12: Neural network compression

SVD for linear layers, flattened and grouped convolutions, pruning and retraining, network weights quantization.

Lecture 13: Object detection

CV-based approaches, R-CNN, RPN, YOLO, SSD, losses, benchmarks and performance metrics.

Additional Resources

• The supplemental material page contains prerequisite topics you should be familiar with.

• Detailed notes will be available for most lectures on the lecture notes page.

• You can browse the course youtube playlist from the current and previous semester. New videos will be posted on the site.