Assignment | Deadline | Description | Links | |
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HW3P1 |
Early Submission: 25th March, 11:59 PM Final Submission: 7th April, 11:59 PM |
RNNs, GRUs and Search |
Autolab |
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HW3P2 |
Early Submission: 25th March, 11:59 PM Final Submission: 7th April, 11:59 PM |
Utterance to Phoneme Mapping |
Kaggle Writeup |
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HW4P1 |
Early Submission: 15th Apr, 11:59 PM Final Submission: 28th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Language Modeling |
Autolab |
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HW4P2 |
Early Submission (Mandatory) - Canvas Quiz : 10th Apr, 11:59 PM Early Submission Bonus (Optional) - Kaggle : 15th Apr, 11:59 PM Final Submission: 28th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Automatic Speech Recognition using Attention-based Seq2Seq Models |
Kaggle Writeup |
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Project Gallery | ||||
Here's an example of a successful project from Fall 2020. The team developed an AI Limmerick generator, and compiled a book from the AI Poet's creations. |
Project Report, Project Video, Book (Amazon) | |||
This piece is performed by the Chinese Music Institute at Peking University (PKU) together with PKU's Chinese orchestra. This is an adaptation of Beethoven: Serenade in D major, Op.25 - 1. Entrata (Allegro),for Chinese transverse flute (Dizi), clarinet and flute. |
“Deep Learning” systems, typified by deep neural networks, are increasingly taking over all the AI tasks, ranging from language understanding, speech and image recognition, to machine translation, planning, and even game playing and autonomous driving. As a result, expertise in deep learning is fast changing from an esoteric desirable to a mandatory prerequisite in many advanced academic settings, and a large advantage in the industrial job market.
In this course we will learn about the basics of deep neural networks, and their applications to various AI tasks. By the end of the course, it is expected that students will have significant familiarity with the subject, and be able to apply Deep Learning to a variety of tasks. They will also be positioned to understand much of the current literature on the topic and extend their knowledge through further study.
If you are only interested in the lectures, you can watch them on the YouTube channel.
The course is well rounded in terms of concepts. It helps us understand the fundamentals of Deep Learning. The course starts off gradually with MLPs and it progresses into the more complicated concepts such as attention and sequence-to-sequence models. We get a complete hands on with PyTorch which is very important to implement Deep Learning models. As a student, you will learn the tools required for building Deep Learning models. The homeworks usually have 2 components which is Autolab and Kaggle. The Kaggle components allow us to explore multiple architectures and understand how to fine-tune and continuously improve models. The task for all the homeworks were similar and it was interesting to learn how the same task can be solved using multiple Deep Learning approaches. Overall, at the end of this course you will be confident enough to build and tune Deep Learning models.
Courses 11-785 and 11-685 are equivalent 12-unit graduate courses, and have a final project and HW 5 respectively. Course 11-485 is the undergraduate version worth 9 units, the only difference being that there is no final project or HW 5.
Instructors:
TAs:
Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. - Good times :')
Recitation: Friday, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Event Calendar: The Google Calendar below ideally contains all events and deadlines for student's convenience. Please feel free to add this calendar to your Google Calendar by clicking on the plus (+) button on the bottom right corner of the calendar below. Any adhoc changes to the schedule will be visible on the calendar first.
OH Calendar: The Google Calendar below contains the schedule for Office Hours. Please feel free to add this calendar to your Google Calendar by clicking on the plus (+) button on the bottom right corner of the calendar below. Any adhoc changes to the schedule, including extra OH, will be visible on the calendar first.
Office hours: This is the schedule for this semester. We will be using OHQueue(11-785) for both zoom and in-person Office hours. Please refer the OH calendar/ Piazza for updated information on OH hours.
Day | Time (Eastern Time) | TA | Zoom/In Person |
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Monday | 9:00AM to 10:00AM | Prakruthi Pradeep | Zoom |
11:00AM to 12:00PM | Arjun Chauhan | In-person | |
2:00PM to 3:00PM | Eshani Agrawal | In-person | |
8:00PM to 9:00PM | Swathi Jadav | Zoom | |
Tuesday | 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Yooni Choi | Zoom |
9:30AM to 10:30AM | Liangze "Josh" Li | Zoom | |
10:30AM to 11:30AM | Yonas Charlie | Zoom | |
3:00PM to 4:00PM | Qin Wang | In-person | |
4:00PM to 6:00PM | Vish | In-person | |
6:00PM to 7:00PM | Harshith Arun Kumar | In-person | |
Wednesday | 8:00AM to 9:00AM | Yooni Choi | Zoom |
9:00AM to 10:00AM | Prakruthi Pradeep | Zoom | |
11:00AM to 12:00PM | Arjun Chauhan | In-person | |
12:00PM to 1:00PM | Abu | In-person | |
2:00PM to 3:00PM | Eshani Agrawal | In-person | |
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Swathi Jadav | In-person | |
Thursday | 9:30AM to 10:30AM | Liangze "Josh" Li | Zoom |
11:00AM to 12:00PM | Abu | In-person | |
2:00PM to 3:00PM | Vedant Bhasin | In-person | |
3:00PM to 5:00PM | Varun Jain | Zoom | |
6:00PM to 7:00PM | Harshith Arun Kumar | In-person | |
Friday | 10:30AM to 11:30AM | Yonas Charlie | Zoom |
11:30AM to 12:30PM | Paul Ewuzie | Zoom | |
2:00PM to 3:00PM | Vedant Bhasin | In-person | |
5:00PM to 7:00PM | Sarthak Bisht | In-person | |
Saturday | 9:00AM to 10:00AM | Paul Ewuzie | Zoom |
10:00AM to 11:00AM | Shikhar Agnihotri | Zoom | |
6:00PM to 7:00PM | Ruimeng Chang | Zoom | |
Sunday | 9:00AM to 11:00AM | Shikhar Agnihotri | In-person |
12:00PM to 1:00PM | Ruimeng Chang | Zoom | |
1:00PM to 2:00PM | Qin Wang | In-person | |
6:00PM to 8:00PM | Aparajith Srinivasan | Zoom |
Homework Hackathon: During 'Homework Hackathons', students will be
assisted with homework by the course staff. It is recommended to come as study groups.
Location: BH A36/A136
Time: Saturday 2-5 PM EST
Policy | ||
Breakdown | ||
Score Assignment | Grading will be based on weekly quizzes (24%), homeworks (50%) and a course project (25%). Note that 1% of your grade is assigned to Attendance. | |
Quizzes | ||
Quizzes |
There will be weekly quizzes.
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Assignments | ||
Assignments | There will be five assignments in all. Assignments will include autolab
components, where you must complete designated tasks, and a kaggle component
where you compete with your colleagues.
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Project | ||
Project |
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Attendance | ||
Attendance |
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Final grade | ||
Final grade | The end-of-term grade is curved. Your overall grade will depend on your performance relative to your classmates. | |
Pass/Fail | ||
Pass/Fail | Students registered for pass/fail must complete all quizzes, HWs and if they are in the graduate course, the project. A grade equivalent to B- is required to pass the course. | |
Auditing | ||
Auditing | Auditors are not required to complete the course project, but must complete all quizzes and homeworks. We encourage doing a course project regardless. | |
End Policy |
This semester we will be implementing study groups. It is highly recommended that you join a study group; Check piazza for further updates.
Piazza is what we use for discussions. You should be automatically signed up if you're enrolled at the start of the semester. If not, please sign up TBA. Also, please follow the Piazza Etiquette when you use the piazza.
AutoLab is what we use to test your understand of low-level concepts, such as engineering your own libraries, implementing important algorithms, and developing optimization methods from scratch.
Kaggle is where we test your understanding and ability to extend neural network architectures discussed in lecture. Similar to how AutoLab shows scores, Kaggle also shows scores, so don't feel intimidated -- we're here to help. We work on hot AI topics, like speech recognition, face recognition, and neural machine translation.
CMU students who are not in the live lectures should watch the uploaded lectures at MediaServices in order to get attendance credit. Links to individual videos will be posted as they are uploaded.
Our YouTube Channel is where non-CMU folks can view all lecture and recitation recordings. Videos marked “Old“ are not current, so please be aware of the video title.
The course will not follow a specific book, but will draw from a number of sources. We list relevant books at the end of this page. We will also put up links to relevant reading material for each class. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the material before the class. The readings will sometimes be arcane and difficult to understand; if so, do not worry, we will present simpler explanations in class.
You can also find a nice catalog of models that are current in the literature here. We expect that you will be in a position to interpret, if not fully understand many of the architectures on the wiki and the catalog by the end of the course.
Lecture | Date | Topics | Slides and Video | Additional Materials | Quiz |
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0 | - |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Quiz 0A Quiz 0B | |
1 | Tuesday, 17 Jan |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
The New
Connectionism
(1988)
On Alan Turing's Anticipation of Connectionism McCullogh and Pitts paper Rosenblatt: The perceptron Bain: Mind and body Hebb: The Organization Of Behaviour |
Quiz 1 |
2 | Thursday, 19 Jan |
|
Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) (F22 in-person lecture link) |
Shannon (1949) Boolean Circuits On the Bias-Variance Tradeoff |
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3 | Tuesday, 24 Jan |
|
Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Widrow and
Lehr (1992) Adaline and Madaline Convergence of perceptron algorithm Threshold Logic TC (Complexity) AC (Complexity) |
Quiz 2 |
4 | Thursday, 26 Jan |
|
Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Werbos
(1990) Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams (1986) |
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5 | Tuesday, 31 Jan |
|
Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Werbos
(1990) Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams (1986) |
Quiz 3 |
5.5 | Wednesday, 1 Feb |
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Video (YT) Extra Lecture | ||
6 | Thursday, 2 Feb |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Backprop fails
to separate,
where
perceptrons succeed, Brady et al. (1989) Why Momentum Really Works |
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7 | Tuesday, 7 Feb |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Momentum,
Polyak (1964) Nestorov (1983) Derivatives and Influences |
Quiz 4 |
8 | Thursday, 9 Feb |
|
Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Derivatives and
Influence Diagrams ADAGRAD, Duchi, Hazan and Singer (2011) Adam: A method for stochastic optimization, Kingma and Ba (2014) |
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9 | Tuesday, 14 Feb |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Quiz 5 | |
10 | Thursday, 16 Feb |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
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11 | Tuesday, 21 Feb |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
CNN Explainer | Quiz 6 |
12 | Thursday, 23 Feb |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
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13 | Tuesday, 28 Feb |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Fahlman
and Lebiere (1990) How to compute a derivative, extra help for HW3P1 (*.pptx) |
Quiz 7 |
14 | Thursday, 2 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks | |
- | Tuesday, 7 Mar |
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- | Quiz 8 | |
- | Thursday, 9 Mar |
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- | ||
15 | Tuesday, 14 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
LSTM | Quiz 9 |
16 | Thursday, 16 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
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17 | Tuesday, 21 Mar |
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Slides (*.pdf)
Slides (*.pdf)
Video (YT) |
Labelling Unsegmented Sequence Data with Recurrent Neural Networks | Quiz 10 |
18 | Thursday, 23 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Attention Is All You
Need The Annotated Transformer - Attention is All You Need paper, but annotated and coded in pytorch! |
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19 | Tuesday, 28 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
A comprehensive Survey on Graph Neural Networks | Quiz 11 |
20 | Thursday, 30 Mar |
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Slides
(*.pdf) Video (YT) |
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21 | Tuesday, 4 Apr |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
Tutorial on VAEs (Doersch) Autoencoding variational Bayes (Kingma) |
Quiz 12 |
22 | Thursday, 6 Apr |
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Slides (*.pdf) Video (YT) |
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23 | Tuesday, 11 Apr |
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Slides
(*.pdf) |
Quiz 13 | |
- | Thursday, 13 Apr |
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- | - | |
24 | Tuesday, 18 Apr |
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TBA | Quiz 14 | |
25 | Thursday, 20 Apr |
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TBA | ||
26 | Tuesday, 25 Apr |
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TBA |
No Quiz | |
27 | Thursday, 27 Apr |
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TBA |
Recitation | Date | Topics | Materials | Videos | Instructor |
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0A | Friday, 13th Jan | Python & OOP Fundamentals | Notebook (*.zip) | ` | Paul Ewuzie |
0B | Friday, 13th Jan | Fundamentals of NumPy | Notebook (*.zip) | Prakruthi Pradeep | |
0C | Friday, 13th Jan | PyTorch Tensor Fundamentals | Notebook + Slides + Cheatsheet (*.zip) |
Video (YT): 1 |
Sarthak Bisht |
0D | Friday, 13th Jan | Dataset & DataLoaders | Notebook + Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Eshani Agrawal |
0E | Friday, 13th Jan | Introduction to Google Colab | Notebook (*.zip) |
Video(YT)
|
Yooni Choi |
0F | Friday, 13th Jan | AWS Fundamentals | Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT):
1,
2,
3,
4
|
Ruimeng Chang, Arjun |
0G | Friday, 13th Jan | Debugging, Monitoring | Notebook + Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT):
1,
2,
3
|
Qin Wang |
0H | Friday, 13th Jan | Basics of Git |
Colab Notebook
|
Video
(YT)
|
Varun Jain |
0I | Friday, 13th Jan | Wandb |
Video
(YT)
|
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0J | Friday, 13th Jan | What to do if you're struggling | Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Aparajith Srinivasan |
0K | Friday, 13th Jan | Data Preprocessing | Notebook + Slides (*.zip) | Yonas Chanie | |
0L | Friday, 13th Jan | Google Cloud | Vish | ||
0M | Friday, 13th Jan | Workflow of a Deeplearning Homework | Notebook + Slides (*.zip) | Vedant Bhasin | |
1 | Friday, 20th Jan | Your first MLP Code | Slides (*.pdf) , Notebook 1a, Notebook 1b, Notebook 1c | Video (YT) | Sarthak Bisht, Yooni Choi |
2 | Friday, 27th Jan | Network Optimization, Hyperparameter Tuning | Slides (*.pdf) |
Video (YT) |
Sarthak Bisht, Varun Jain |
HW1 Bootcamp | Saturday, 28th Jan | How to get started with HW1 | Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Eshani, Sarthak, Yooni |
3 | Friday, 3rd Feb | Computing Derivatives & Autograd |
Slides (*.pdf)
Notebook (*.ipynb) |
Video (YT)
|
Sarthak Bisht, Ruimeng Chang |
HW1 Hackathon | Saturday, 4th Feb | Tips with HW1 | Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Swathi, Sarthak |
4 | Friday, 10th Feb | Paper Writing Workshop | Slides (*.pdf) |
Video (YT) |
Joseph, Miya |
HW1 Hackathon | Saturday, 11th Feb | Tips with HW1P2 | Slides (*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Sarthak |
5 | Friday, 17th Feb | CNN: Basics & Backprop |
Slides (*.pdf)
Colab Notebook |
Video (YT)
|
Yooni, Eshani |
6 | Friday, 24th Feb | CNNs: Classification & Verification | Slides(*.pdf) |
Video (YT) |
Prakruthi, Paul |
HW2 Bootcamp | Saturday, 25th Feb | How to get started with HW2 |
Resources
(*.zip) |
Video (YT)
|
Qin Wang, Vedant Bhasin, Ruimeng Chang |
7 | Friday, 3rd Mar | CNNs: Verification, Code | Slides (*.pdf) |
Video (YT)
|
Prakruthi Pradeep, Arjun Chauhan |
8 | Friday, 10th Mar | RNN Basics (Pre-recorded) |
Slides (*.pdf) Code (*.ipynb) |
Video (YT)
|
Paul Ewuzie |
9 | Friday, 17th Mar | CTC, Beam Search | CTC Slides (*.pdf) Beam-search Slides (*.pdf) |
Video (YT)
|
Eshani Agrawal, Shikhar Agnihotri |
HW3 Bootcamp | Saturday, 18th Mar | How to get started with HW3 |
HW3P1 Slides
(*.pdf)
HW3P2 Slides (*.pdf) |
Video (YT) |
Eshani Agrawal, Harshith Kumar, Vedant Bhasin |
10 | Friday, 24th Mar | Attention, MT, LAS | Slides |
Video (YT) |
Swathi Jadav, Liangze "Josh" Li |
11 | Friday, 31st Mar | Transformers |
Slides Colab Notebook |
Video (YT) |
Vish, Vedant |
12 | Friday, 7th Apr | Graph Neural Networks | Slides (*.ipynb) |
Video (YT) |
Vish, Josh |
HW4 Bootcamp | Wednesday, 12th Apr | How to get started with HW4 |
HW4P1 - Video (YT) HW4P2 - Video (YT) |
Varun, Vish, Prakruthi, Josh | |
13 | Friday, 21st Apr | Autoencoders and VAEs | |||
14 | Friday, 28th Apr | Deep Reinforcement Learning |
Video (YT) Video (YT) |
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HW5 Bootcamp | GANs and How to get started with HW5 |
∑ Ongoing, ∏ Upcoming
Assignment | Release Date (EST) | Due Date (EST) | Related Materials / Links |
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HW0P1 | Friday, 13th Jan, 11:59 PM | Final: 30th Jan, 11:59 PM |
Autolab,
Handout
(see recitation 0s) |
HW0P2 | Friday, 13th Jan, 11:59 PM | Final: 30th Jan, 11:59 PM |
Autolab,
Handout
(see recitation 0s) |
HW1P1 | Sunday, 22nd Jan, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 11th Feb, 11:59 PM |
Autolab,
Writeup
(pdf), Handout (.tar) |
Final: 17th Feb, 11:59 PM | |||
HW1P2 | Sunday, 22nd Jan, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 11th Feb, 11:59 PM |
Kaggle,
Writeup (pdf), Starter Notebook, MCQ |
Final: 17th Feb, 11:59 PM | |||
HW1 Bonus | Sunday, 22nd Jan, 12:00 AM | Friday, 10th Mar, 11:59 PM | Autolab |
HW1 Autograd | Sunday, 22nd Jan, 12:00 AM | Wednesday, 3rd May, 11:59 PM |
Autolab,
Writeup
(pdf), Handout (.tar) |
Project Proposal | Monday, 27th Feb, 11:59 PM | ||
HW5 | Monday, 20th Feb, 11:59 PM | Thursday, 27th Apr, 11:59 PM EST | |
HW2P1 | Friday, 17th Feb, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 4th Mar, 11:59 PM |
Writeup, Autolab |
Final: 17th Mar, 11:59 PM | |||
HW2P2 | Friday, 17th Feb, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 4th Mar, 11:59 PM |
Face
Classification: Kaggle, Face Verification: Kaggle, Writeup (*.pdf), Starter Notebook |
Final: 17th Mar, 11:59 PM | |||
HW2 Bonus | Friday, 17th Feb, 11:59 PM | Friday, 31st March, 11:59 PM | Autolab, |
HW2 Autograd | Friday, 5th March, 11:59 PM | Wednesday, 28th April, 11:59 PM | Autolab |
Project Midterm Report | - | Friday, 31st March, 11:59 PM | |
HW3P1 | Friday, 10th Mar, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 26th Mar, 11:59 PM |
Autolab, Writeup |
Final: 7th Apr, 11:59 PM | |||
HW3P2 | Friday, 17th Mar, 11:59 PM | Early Submission: 26th Mar, 11:59 PM |
Kaggle, Canvas Quiz, Writeup (*.pdf) |
Final: 7th Apr, 11:59 PM | |||
HW2 Autograd | Friday, 5th Mar, 11:59 PM | Wednesday, 28th April, 11:59 PM | Autolab |
HW4P1 | Friday, 31st Mar, 11:59 PM | Early Submission Bonus: 15th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Autolab, Writeup (*.pdf), Handout (*.zip) |
Final: 28th Apr, 11:59 PM | |||
HW4P2 | Friday, 4th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Early Submission Canvas Quiz (Mandatory): 10th Apr, 11:59PM Kaggle Cutoff Bonus (Optional): 15th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Kaggle, Writeup(*pdf) |
Final: 28th Apr, 11:59 PM | |||
HW5 | Friday, 1st Apr, 11:59 PM | Early: 18th Apr, 11:59 PM |
Kaggle, Writeup(*pdf), Handout |
Final: 1st May, 11:59 PM | |||
Final Project Video Presentation & Preiliminary Project Report | - | 27th Apr, 11:59 PM | |
Project Peer reviews | - | ||
Final Project Report Submission | - | 3rd May, 11:59 PM |
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