This course leverages a variety of resources to impart the concepts and practical applications of deep learning. Some of these resources are highlighted on the About Page. The primary reference is Deep Learning with Python, authored by François Chollet in its second edition (2021).

1402/07/12

Book

Deep Learning with Python, by François Chollet, Second Edition, 2021

Jupyter notebooks

Intro to Tensors, Auto Grad & Gradient Descent

Programming

• ColabTensors, Variables and Auto Grad
• ColabRegression, Gragient Descent

Further Reading

• TensorFlow vs PyTorch: TensorFlow vs PyTorch: Deep Learning Frameworks, 2023

• My PyTorch Workshop

• Learn PyTorch: A website that provides tutorials and examples on how to use PyTorch for various deep learning tasks.

1402/07/16

• Previous Codes
• Using autograd to Solve a Math Puzzle

Colabchapter02_mathematical-building-blocks

Further Reading

• Automatic Differentiation Using Gradient Tapes
• Introduction to gradients and automatic differentiation
• Advanced automatic differentiation

1402/07/23

• Gradient Descent - until 12.3.3.2. Convergence Analysis

• Matrix Derivative - Proposition 5, Proposition 7 & 8

• What worries me about AI

1402/07/26

Class Canceled

1402/07/30

Paper The Application of Taylor Expansion in Reducing the Size of Convolutional Neural Networks for Classifying Impressionism and Miniature Style Paintings (کاربرد بسط تیلور در کاهش حجم شبکه های عصبی پیچشی برای طبقه بندی نقاشی های سبک امپرسیونیسم و مینیاتور )

HW1 Real Time Sudoku Solver, due: 1402/08/04, The deadline for the assignment submission has been extended to 1402/08/12 with a 10 percent penalty for each day of delay from 08/04.

HW2 Generate Persian Sudoku, due: 1402/08/08 Extended until 1402/08/13

Further Reading

• Algorithm X

1402/08/07

• Momentum
  • Momentum, Until 12.6.1.4
• Chapter 2: The mathematical building blocks of neural networks

Further Reading

• Momentum
  • Visualization of Momentum
  • distill: Why Momentum Really Works?
• Stochastic Gradient Descent
• Minibatch Stochastic Gradient Descent

1402/08/10

Class Canceled

1402/08/14

• Chapter 3: Introduction to Keras and TensorFlow
• Binary Accuracy

HW3 Modify the code of Chap. 3, due: 1402/08/20

HW4 Using autograd to Solve a Math Puzzle, due: 1402/08/23

1402/08/21

• Chapter 4: Getting started with neural networks: Classification and regression
• Entropy (information theory)
• Binary Cross Entropy/Log Loss for Binary Classification
• CE and Acc

Further Reading

• The Application of Taylor Expansion in Reducing the Size of Convolutional Neural Networks for Classifying Impressionism and Miniature Style Paintings
  • Response to reviewer comments, round 1
  • Response to reviewer comments, round 2
  • Response to reviewer comments, round 3
• Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, python for microscopists, Many examples of TF
• TF-IDF in NLP

1402/08/24

• Chapter 4: Getting started with neural networks: Classification and regression

Further Reading

• playground.tensorflow.org
• Artificial Neural Networks

1402/08/28

HW5 Real Time Sudoku Solver with Persian Digits, due: 1402/09/04

HW6 N-Rook in Chess with auto-grad, due: 1402/09/09

Paper Fully Connected to Fully Convolutional: Road to Yesterday(تمام متصل به تمام پیچشی: پلی به گذشته)

• Sigmoid, Softmax
• Classification, Object Detection and Image Segmentation
• What is the difference between object detection, semantic segmentation and localization?
• Difference Between Face Detection and Face Recognition

Further Reading

• Minibatch Stochastic Gradient Descent
• Minibatch Stochastic Gradient Descent on Apple Leaves in FC2FC
• Softmax function (Wiki)

1402/09/05

• Chapter 4: Getting started with neural networks: Classification and regression

1402/09/08, 12, 19, 22

• Slides
• Classical Convolutional Neural Networks
• Chapter 8 of Deep Learning with Python: Introduction to deep learning for computer vision

ColabPlay with Convs & Filters

ColabImage Filtering

ColabLarge-Scale Constrained Linear Least-Squares

ColabChapter 8: Introduction to deep learning for computer vision

HW7 1D Convolution, due: 1402/09/26

HW8 2D Convolution, due: 1402/10/02

Further Reading

• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Networks Using Blocks (VGG)
• What is translation invariance in computer vision and convolutional neural network?
• Understanding Normalisation Methods In Deep Learning
• Batch Normalization

Paper Deep Image Deblurring: A Survey

Paper Convolutional Neural Networks Are Not Invariant to Translation, but They Can Learn to Be

• Stanford, CS230
• Github: PyTorch implementation of image deblurring using deep learning

1402/10/03

1

Generative Adversarial Networks (Persian)

2

How to Develop a 1D Generative Adversarial Network From Scratch in Keras

ColabGAN-01

3

Section 12.4 of Deep Learning with Python: Variational Autoencoders

ColabVariational autoencoders

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Section 12.4 of Deep Learning with Python: Generative adversarial networks

ColabGenerative adversarial networks

5

GFPGAN aims at developing a Practical Algorithm for Real-world Face Restoration

ColabGFPGAN_inference

Further Reading

• StyleGAN: A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks Wiki
  • StyleGAN - Official TensorFlow Implementation
  • A Gentle Introduction to StyleGAN the Style Generative Adversarial Network

• GAN Zoo: A list of all named GANs

• GAN applications

• GAN tutorial on Medium

• Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks

• Generative Adversarial Networks (d2l)

1402/10/10

• Midterm

  • Theory Section (Paper-based): PDF
  • Coding Section (System-based)

1402/10/17

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Word Embedding

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Section 12.4 of Deep Learning with Python: Variational Autoencoders

ColabVariational autoencoders

Further Reading

• Autoencoder in TensorFlow 2: Beginner’s Guide
• Principal Component Analysis explained visually
• Intuitively Understanding the KL Divergence

• A Gentle Introduction to Cross-Entropy (and KL Divergence) for Machine Learning

• Wiki, Cross Entropy

• Transposed Convolution (In Persian)
• Transposed Conv as Matrix Multiplication explained, Medium
• Transpose Convolutions and Autoencoders, CS, Toronto
• Transposed Convolution, Coursera, Andrew Ng
• A guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning, Montreal

Winter 1402

1

Computer Vision

Whether it is medical diagnosis, self-driving vehicles, camera monitoring, or smart filters, many applications in the field of computer vision are closely related to our current and future lives

2

Image Augmentation

3

Fine-Tuning

4

Object Detection and Bounding Boxes

5

Anchor Boxes

6

Multiscale Object Detection

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The Object Detection Dataset

• How to Find Wally with a Neural Network?
  • Use GAN to produce a chaotic scenes including Wally

1402/11/04

• Final Exam PDF

1

Region-based CNNs (R-CNNs)

2

Semantic Segmentation and the Dataset

3

Fully Convolutional Networks

1

Neural Style Transfer

2

Image Classification (CIFAR-10) on Kaggle

1

RNN

2

Chapter 11 of DL Book

3

LLMs Visualization

4

LLMs Presentation

• Physics Informed Neural Network for Computer Vision and Medical Imaging
  • 1D harmonic oscillator physics-informed neural network, PyTorch
  • Colab1D harmonic oscillator PINNs
• Other papers about PINNs
• Implementation of PINNs in TensorFlow 2
• TensorFlow 2.0 implementation of Maziar Raissi’s Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
• Physics-Informed Computer Vision: A Review and Perspectives
• Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Computational Imaging, PhD Thesis

DeepMid

• FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models
  • Github
• MuZero, AlphaZero, and AlphaDev: Optimizing computer systems
  • Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
  • Github

Gaussian Processes

• Gaussian Processes
  • github code
  • Variational Auto-encoded Deep Gaussian Processes
  • Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

PINNs & GANs

• PID-GAN: A GAN Framework based on a Physics-informed Discriminator for Uncertainty Quantification with Physics

• Revisiting PINNs: Generative Adversarial Physics-informed Neural Networks and Point-weighting Methol

• Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games

• Modify one of the following codes to work with Persian digits:
  • Image to LaTeX using CNN & RNN
  • im2latex tensorflow implementation

• Knight Tour Problem Using Neural Networks

• Deployment a DL app

• Differentiable Convex Optimization Layers
  • Github
• Chapter 12 of d2i: Optimization Algorithms
  • Momentum

* Sudoku Solver

• Hand Gesture Recognition

*‌ Advanced automatic differentiation

• Community Portal for Automatic Differentiation

Neural tangent kernel

• Wiki
• Master Thesis: An Empirical Analysis of the Laplace and Neural Tangent Kernels
• Some Math behind Neural Tangent Kernel
• Paper: Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks
• Paper: Fast Graph Condensation with Structure-based Neural Tangent Kernel
  • Lin Wang’s home page
• Paper: Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine
• When are Neural Networks more powerful than Neural Tangent Kernels?

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Theory of Deep Learning

Book, Princeton lecture notes

2

Theoretical Foundations for Deep Learning

MIT Course

3

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

Arxive Book, and Cambridge

4

Mathematical Aspects of Deep Learning

Book, Cambridge

5

What Breaks The Curse of Dimensionality in Deep Learning?

Rejected paper in openreview

6

Engineering Optimization: Theory and Applications, by S.S. Rao, 1978

• paperswithcode: combinatorial-optimization

• Combinatorial optimization with physics-inspired graph neural networks
  • Combinatorial Optimization with Graph Neural Networks
  • Reply to: Inability of a graph neural network heuristic to outperform greedy algorithms in solving combinatorial optimization problems
  • Reply to: Modern graph neural networks do worse than classical greedy algorithms in solving combinatorial optimization problems like maximum independent set
• Exact Combinatorial Optimization with Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Github Exact Combinatorial Optimization with Graph Convolutional Neural Networks: Set Covering, Capacitated Facility Location, Maximum Independent Set
  • Ecole: a library of Extensible Combinatorial Optimization Learning Environments
  • Bengio, Yoshua, Andrea Lodi, and Antoine Prouvost. “Machine learning for combinatorial optimization: a methodological tour d’horizon.” European Journal of Operational Research. 2020
• Let the Flows Tell: Solving Graph Combinatorial Optimization Problems with GFlowNets
  • GFlowNet Foundations
  • http://www.gflownet.org
• COMBHELPER: A Neural Approach to Reduce Search Space for Graph Combinatorial Problems
  • Github

• Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Heavy Decoder: Toward Large Scale Generalization

• Attention, Learn to Solve Routing Problems

• Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor
  • Github
• Efficient Joint Optimization of Layer-Adaptive Weight Pruning in Deep Neural Networks