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.
- A brief introduction to machine learning.
- Multi-layer perceptron (incl. optimization procedures, batch normalization, Dropout, etc.).
- Introduction to Tensorflow, applied to supervised machine learing.
- Recurrent Neural Networks and beyond.
- Reinforcement Learning.
- Simon Scheidegger (HEC, University of Lausanne)
The lectures will take place over Zoom.