Coursera Deep Learning Specialization

This repository contains my solutions, notes, and projects for the Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng on Coursera. The specialization consists of 5 courses that provide a comprehensive introduction to deep learning and neural networks.

📚 Course Overview

The Deep Learning Specialization covers the following courses:

1. Neural Networks and Deep Learning

• Week 1: Introduction to Deep Learning
• Week 2: Neural Networks Basics
• Week 3: Shallow Neural Networks
• Week 4: Deep Neural Networks

2. Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

• Week 1: Practical aspects of Deep Learning
• Week 2: Optimization algorithms
• Week 3: Hyperparameter tuning, Batch Normalization and Programming Frameworks

3. Structuring Machine Learning Projects

• Week 1: ML Strategy (1)
• Week 2: ML Strategy (2)

4. Convolutional Neural Networks

• Week 1: Foundations of Convolutional Neural Networks
• Week 2: Deep convolutional models: case studies
• Week 3: Object detection
• Week 4: Special applications: Face recognition & Neural style transfer

5. Sequence Models

• Week 1: Recurrent Neural Networks
• Week 2: Natural Language Processing & Word Embeddings
• Week 3: Sequence models & Attention mechanism

🗂️ Repository Structure

COURSERA-Deep-Learning-DL-Specialization/
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├── Course-1-Neural-Networks-and-Deep-Learning/
│   ├── Week-1/
│   ├── Week-2/
│   ├── Week-3/
│   └── Week-4/
│
├── Course-2-Improving-Deep-Neural-Networks/
│   ├── Week-1/
│   ├── Week-2/
│   └── Week-3/
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├── Course-3-Structuring-Machine-Learning-Projects/
│   ├── Week-1/
│   └── Week-2/
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├── Course-4-Convolutional-Neural-Networks/
│   ├── Week-1/
│   ├── Week-2/
│   ├── Week-3/
│   └── Week-4/
│
├── Course-5-Sequence-Models/
│   ├── Week-1/
│   ├── Week-2/
│   └── Week-3/
│
├── Projects/
├── Notes/
└── README.md

🛠️ Prerequisites

To get the most out of this specialization, you should have:

• Mathematics: Linear algebra, calculus, and probability
• Programming: Python programming experience
• Machine Learning: Basic understanding of machine learning concepts (helpful but not required)

🚀 Setup and Installation

Required Libraries

# Core libraries
pip install numpy pandas matplotlib
pip install tensorflow keras
pip install scikit-learn
pip install jupyter notebook

# Additional utilities
pip install seaborn plotly
pip install pillow opencv-python

Environment Setup

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/sahil-datascience/COURSERA-Deep-Learning-DL-Specialization.git
   cd COURSERA-Deep-Learning-DL-Specialization

2. Create a virtual environment (recommended):

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt  # If requirements.txt is provided

4. Start Jupyter Notebook:

   jupyter notebook

📝 Usage

Each course folder contains:

• Programming Assignments: Jupyter notebooks with implemented solutions
• Notes: Key concepts and learnings from lectures
• Projects: Capstone projects and additional implementations
• Resources: Additional materials and references

🎯 Key Learning Outcomes

After completing this specialization, you will be able to:

• Build and train deep neural networks
• Implement various optimization algorithms
• Apply deep learning to computer vision and natural language processing
• Understand and implement convolutional and recurrent neural networks
• Structure machine learning projects effectively
• Apply best practices for hyperparameter tuning and regularization

📊 Technologies Used

• Python: Primary programming language
• TensorFlow/Keras: Deep learning frameworks
• NumPy: Numerical computing
• Matplotlib/Seaborn: Data visualization
• Jupyter Notebook: Interactive development environment

🏆 Certification

This repository represents my journey through the Deep Learning Specialization. Upon completion, I earned the certification from Coursera and deeplearning.ai.

📚 Additional Resources

• Deep Learning Specialization Course
• deeplearning.ai
• TensorFlow Documentation
• Keras Documentation

⚠️ Academic Integrity

This repository contains my personal solutions to the course assignments. If you're currently taking the course:

• Use this repository for reference and learning purposes only
• Don't copy solutions directly
• Ensure you understand the concepts before implementing
• Follow Coursera's honor code and academic integrity guidelines

🤝 Contributing

While this is primarily a personal learning repository, I welcome:

• Suggestions for improvements
• Bug fixes
• Alternative solution approaches
• Additional resources and references

Please feel free to open issues or submit pull requests!

📄 License

This repository is for educational purposes. Please respect the intellectual property rights of Coursera and deeplearning.ai regarding course materials.

👨‍💻 Author

Sahil

• GitHub: @sahil-datascience
• Specialization Focus: Deep Learning and Data Science

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Happy Learning! 🚀