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SDSC4008 - Deep Learning

Offering Academic Unit
School of Data Science
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Pre-requisite(s)
Course Offering Term*:
Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

This course provides students with an extensive exposure to deep learning. Topics include shallow and deep neural networks, activation functions and rectified linear unit, construction of deep neural networks and matrix representations including deep convolutional neural networks and deep recursive neural networks, computational issues including backpropagation, automatic differentiation, and stochastic gradient descent, complexity analysis, approximation analysis including universality of approximation, design of deep neural network architectures and programming according to various applications.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%
Examination Duration: 2 hours
Note: To pass the course, apart from obtaining a minimum of 40% in the overall mark, a student must also obtain a minimum mark of 30% in both continuous assessment and examination components.
 
Detailed Course Information

SDSC4008.pdf