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        CSE 4095/5095 
        Deep Learning 
        
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  (Tentative schedule for the course and deviations may be necessary as the course progresses.) 
  
  
	
		| Date | 
		Topic | 
		Notes | 
		Reading (Textbook or Other Materials) | 
	 
	
		| Aug. 25 | 
		Introduction | 
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		Chapter 1, 2, 3, Nature review on DL, Basic calculus refresher | 
	 
	
		| Aug. 27, 29 | 
		Machine Learning Basics | 
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		Chapter 4, 5,  Machine learning math essentials | 
	 
	
		| Sept. 3 | 
		
		Shallow Classifiers | 
		Project Details | 
		Chapter 4, 5 | 
	 
	
		| Sept. 5 | 
		
		Loss Functions | 
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		Chapter 4, 5 | 
	 
        
		| Sept. 8, 12 | 
		Optimization, SGD | 
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		Chapter 4, 5 | 
	 
	
		| Sept. 15 | 
		
		Backpropagation | 
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		Chapter 4, 5 | 
	 
	
		| Sept. 17, 19 | 
		
		Intro to Neural Networks | 
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		| Sept. 22 | 
		
		Intro to Convolutional Neural Networks, Convolution | 
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                AlexNet | 
	 
        
                | Sept. 24, 26 | 
                
                Pooling, Demo, BP example | 
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                All Convolutional Net | 
         
	
		| Sept. 29 | 
		Training Neural Networks | 
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                | Oct. 1 | 
                Training Neural Networks II, Batch Normalization | 
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                Batch Normalization | 
         
	
		| Oct. 6 | 
		Second-order Optimization | 
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		Chapter 8 | 
	 
	
		| Oct. 8 | 
		Regularization, Transfer Learning | 
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                Dropout, Blackout, DeCAF | 
	 
	
		| Oct. 13 | 
		ImageNet, CNN Architectures | 
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		AlexNet, VGGNet, GoogleNet, ResNet | 
	 
	
		| Oct. 15 | 
		Visualization | 
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		Yosinski et al. | 
	 
	
	  | Oct. 20 | 
	  Word2Vec | 
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	  word2vec, glove, wordrank | 
     
	
	  | Oct. 22 | 
	  RNN | 
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	  rnnlm | 
         
	
	  | Oct. 27 | 
	  LSTM, GRU | 
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	  LSTM, GRU | 
         
	
	  | Oct. 29 | 
	  Image Caption, Machine Translation | 
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	  Show, Attend and Tell, NMT with Attention | 
     
    
      | Nov. 3 | 
      Transformer | 
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      Attention is All You Need, The Illustrated Transformer | 
         
	
	  | Nov. 5 | 
	  AutoEncoder, VAE | 
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	  VAE | 
         
	
	  | Nov. 10 | 
	  Generative Adversial Networks | 
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	  GAN, DCGAN | 
         
	
	  | Nov. 12 | 
	  Diffusion Models | 
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	  DDPM, Stable Diffusion | 
     
	
	  | Nov. 17 | 
	  Review | 
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	  | Nov. 19 | 
	  Presentation | 
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	  | Nov. 24 - 28 | 
	  No classes | 
	  Thanksgiving Recess | 
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          | Dec. 1 | 
          Presentation | 
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          | Dec. 3 | 
          Review | 
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          | Dec. 9 | 
          Final Exam | 
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	  | Dec. 12 | 
	  Project Report Due (by 11:59 pm) | 
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