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Neural Network Fundamentals

Understand the building blocks of deep learning from perceptrons to multi-layer networks

Recommended for:🤖LLM Engineer🔬ML Researcher📊Data Scientist

Prerequisites

→Linear Algebra→Calculus & Optimization→Python for ML
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Beginner

Beginner

Build intuition for neural networks

What to Learn

  • •Perceptron and activation functions
  • •Forward propagation step by step
  • •Backpropagation intuition
  • •Loss functions (MSE, Cross-entropy)
  • •Training with mini-batch gradient descent

Resources

  • 📚3Blue1Brown: Neural Networks
  • 📚Michael Nielsen: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • 📚PyTorch 60-minute blitz
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Intermediate

Intermediate

Deep dive into architectures

What to Learn

  • •Activation functions comparison (ReLU, GELU, Swish)
  • •Batch normalization and layer normalization
  • •Dropout and regularization techniques
  • •Weight initialization strategies
  • •Residual connections and skip connections

Resources

  • 📚Deep Learning book Part II
  • 📚Stanford CS231n lecture notes
  • 📚Implementing networks from scratch
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Advanced

Advanced

Cutting-edge neural architectures

What to Learn

  • •Neural architecture search (NAS)
  • •Dynamic neural networks
  • •Sparsity and efficient architectures
  • •Knowledge distillation
  • •Multi-task and meta-learning

Resources

  • 📚NAS survey papers
  • 📚EfficientNet and MobileNet papers
  • 📚Neural network compression research
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