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Neural Networks

From a single neuron to training deep networks — with the math kept honest.

5 chapters · 14 skills

Map what you already know
  1. Chapter 1

    Foundations

    • The artificial neuron
    • Activation functionsNeeds The artificial neuron
    • Layers and forward passNeeds Activation functions
  2. Chapter 2

    How networks learn

    • Loss functionsNeeds Layers and forward pass
    • Gradient descentNeeds Loss functions
    • BackpropagationNeeds Gradient descent
  3. Chapter 3

    Training in practice

    • Overfitting and generalizationNeeds Backpropagation
    • OptimisersNeeds Gradient descent
    • Initialization and normalizationNeeds Optimisers
  4. Chapter 4

    Architectures

    • Convolutional networksNeeds Layers and forward pass
    • Sequence modelsNeeds Layers and forward pass
    • AttentionNeeds Sequence models
  5. Chapter 5

    Evaluation and judgment

    • MetricsNeeds Overfitting and generalization
    • Debugging trainingNeeds Metrics