Introduction to deep learning

Introduction to deep learning

"The objectives of this module are to learn some of the fundementals of using deep learning for neuroscience"

Information

The estimated time to complete this training module is 3h.

The prerequisites to take this module are:

Contact Desiree Lussier if you have questions on this module, or if you want to check that you completed successfully all the exercises.

Resources

The first portion of this module was presented by Blake Richards during Brainhack School 2020

The video presentation is available here:

Exercise

  • Watch the video presentation by Blake Richards.
  • Consider these statements/questions and answer them briefly in a saved doc:
    • Give an example of a research question that you could use deep learning to solve.
    • How would deep learning provide an advantage for solving the problem?
    • Give an example of a research question for which deep learning would not be appropriate.
    • What would be a disadvantage of deep learning compared to another method?
  • Follow up with Désirée Lussier to validate you completed the exercise correctly.
  • 🎉 🎉 🎉 you completed this training module! 🎉 🎉 🎉

More resources

You can check out the documentation on Pytorch and additional tutorials here. The Deep Learning Book by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville is also freely available here