Please refer to the CS763 Spring 2017 course page for general information. On this page, you will find specific information for the lectures that will be taught by Arjun Jain.

• Instructor: Arjun Jain
• Office: 216, CSE New Building
• Email: ajain@cse DOT iitb DOT ac DOT in
• Instructor Office Hours (in room 216 CSE New Building): Arjun is on campus only on Fridays (and Saturdays for the 3 weeks during this course). Meet him after class or fix an appointment over email.

• The data-driven paradigm, feed forwards networks, back-propagation and chain rule
• CNNs and their building blocks - ReLU, MaxPool, Convolution, CrossEntropy, etc.
• Vanishing gradients, residual blocks, visualizing and understanding CNNs
• CNN applications, CNN compression (and if time permits Siamese and Triplet networks)

• Lecture slides that will be regularly posted
• Deep Learning, by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville (freely downloadable!)
• All iTorch notebooks for topics covered in class can be found here

• Learn Lua in 15 minutes
• Torch's Tensor class
• Torch's math library
• Awesome deep learning papers

We will use Kaggle to host the leader board for the assignment. You will be able to submit your model predictions on Kaggle using your @iitb.ac.in email ids and check where you stand as compared to others in real time. Complete details about the assignment can be found here. Sample data can be downloaded from here. Due Date: 14 April 2017, 23:55.