Course Outline
Introduction
- Chainer vs Caffe vs Torch
- Overview of Chainer features and components
Getting Started
- Understanding the trainer structure
- Installing Chainer, CuPy, and NumPy
- Defining functions on variables
Training Neural Networks in Chainer
- Constructing a computational graph
- Running MNIST dataset examples
- Updating parameters using an optimizer
- Processing images to evaluate results
Working with GPUs in Chainer
- Implementing recurrent neural networks
- Using multiple GPUs for parallelization
Implementing Other Neural Network Models
- Defining RNN models and running examples
- Generating images with Deep Convolutional GAN
- Running Reinforcement Learning examples
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- An understanding of artificial neural networks
- Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (Caffe, Torch, etc.)
- Python programming experience
Audience
- AI Researchers
- Developers
Testimonials (5)
Hunter is fabulous, very engaging, extremely knowledgeable and personable. Very well done.
Rick Johnson - Laramie County Community College
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The trainer was a professional in the subject field and related theory with application excellently
Fahad Malalla - Tatweer Petroleum
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Very flexible.
Frank Ueltzhoffer
Course - Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning and Deep Thinking
We gained some knowledge about NN in general, and what was the most interesting for me were the new types of NN that are popular nowadays.
Tea Poklepovic
Course - Neural Network in R
The interactive part, tailored to our specific needs.