Week 15- Deep Learning

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Author

George I. Hagstrom

Published

May 11, 2025

Welcome to Week 15. During this week we will talk more about architecture of neural networks, learning about some potential advantages for deep networks. We will also discuss reasons why they are difficult to train and some potential solutions: namely different initializations of the biases and the weights and different choices of activation functions.

Your final homework assignment is due May 18th at the latest.

Here are more details on what you need to do this week: