Course Outline
Introduction
- Chainer vs Caffe vs Torch
- Overview of Chainer features and components
Getting Started
- Understanding the trainer structure
- Installing Chainer, CuPy, and NumPy
- Defining functions on variables
Training Neural Networks in Chainer
- Constructing a computational graph
- Running MNIST dataset examples
- Updating parameters using an optimizer
- Processing images to evaluate results
Working with GPUs in Chainer
- Implementing recurrent neural networks
- Using multiple GPUs for parallelization
Implementing Other Neural Network Models
- Defining RNN models and running examples
- Generating images with Deep Convolutional GAN
- Running Reinforcement Learning examples
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- An understanding of artificial neural networks
- Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (Caffe, Torch, etc.)
- Python programming experience
Audience
- AI Researchers
- Developers
Testimonials (3)
I really liked the end where we took the time to play around with CHAT GPT. The room was not set up the best for this- instead of one large table a couple of small ones so we could get into small groups and brainstorm would have helped
Nola - Laramie County Community College
Course - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Overview
Working from first principles in a focused way, and moving to applying case studies within the same day
Maggie Webb - Department of Jobs, Regions, and Precincts
Course - Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Thinking
It felt like we were going through directly relevant information at a good pace (i.e. no filler material)