Introduction to Deep Learning

This is a two-day introductory course on "Deep Learning", held at the CSCS-USI HPC Summerschool from July 22nd-23rd, 2020.

Prerequisites:

  • Calculus and statistics.
  • Experience in the Python programming language.
  • Participants are encouraged to bring their research projects to be discussed.

Topics

Day 1, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

  • A brief introduction to machine learning.
  • Multi-layer perceptron (incl. optimization procedures, batch normalization, Dropout, etc.).

Day 2, Thursday, July 23rd 2020

  • Introduction to Tensorflow, applied to supervised machine learing.
  • Recurrent Neural Networks and beyond.
  • Reinforcement Learning.

Lecturer

The lectures will take place over Zoom.