Universidad Panamericana · Master’s in Data Science

Course Description

A comprehensive journey through the foundations and state-of-the-art of Deep Neural Networks, from the mathematical basics of the Perceptron through Transformers and generative models.

Syllabus

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1 Perceptron, Universal Approximation Theorem
2 Backpropagation and gradient descent
3 Optimizers: SGD, Momentum, Adam
4 Convolutional Neural Networks
5 Recurrent networks: RNN, LSTM, GRU
6 Attention and the Transformer architecture
7 Pretrained language models: BERT, GPT
8 Generative models: VAEs and GANs

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