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About the Course

After completing this course, learners will be able to: • Analytically optimize different types of functions commonly used in machine learning using properties of derivatives and gradients • Approximately optimize different types of functions commonly used in machine learning using first-order (gradient descent) and second-order (Newton’s method) iterative methods • Visually interpret differentiation of different types of functions commonly used in machine learning • Perform gradient descent in neural networks with different activation and cost functions Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data science is a foundational online program created by DeepLearning.AI and taught by Luis Serrano. This beginner-friendly program is where you’ll master the fundamental mathematics toolkit of machine learning. Many machine learning engineers and data scientists need help with mathematics, and even experienced practitioners can feel held back by a lack of math skills. This Specialization uses innovative pedagogy in mathematics to help you learn quickly and intuitively, with courses that use easy-to-follow plugins and visualizations to help you see how the math behind machine learning actually works. Upon completion, you’ll understand the mathematics behind all the most common algorithms and data analysis techniques — plus the know-how to incorporate them into your machine learning career. This is a beginner-friendly program, with a recommended background of at least high school mathematics (functions, basic algebra). We also recommend a basic familiarity with Python (loops, functions, if/else statements, lists/dictionaries, importing libraries) , as labs use Python and Jupyter Notebooks to demonstrate learning objectives in the environment where they’re most applicable to machine learning and data science....

Top reviews

MS

Aug 29, 2023

very good courses. The material is quite deep and difficult, but can be conveyed so that it is easy to understand. The lab is also very helpful to better understand the concept

AK

Feb 26, 2024

Enjoyed learning calculus from prof. Serrano. I mostly enjoyed the programing exercises, I wish this is how it was taught to us in school. But better late than never.

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By Saurabh K S

Feb 15, 2023

Good complementary course to the Multivariate Calculus course by Imperial College London. I had already taken that course so I was able to skip almost all the lectures here, and jumped straight to the assignments.

Week 3 Newton's methods contained the use of Hessian instead of gradient descent, which was covered the the ICL course, but was not explained where it came from. They also used the hybrid of Hessian and Grad Descent and the use cases for both.

Overall, if you are stuck between this course or the ICL version, go with the ICL one

By Max M

Feb 7, 2023

I also did the calculus course of imperial college london (didn't finish the last two weeks because the course gets worse after week 4) and I have to say that I enjoyed this course much more. Things are explained very clearly and I built a very good understanding and intuition of all the concepts. One could argue that the topics covered are a bit too basic, but in the end you get a good understanding of how optimization algorithms like gradient descent are working under the hood of ml-models.

By Diana K

Feb 3, 2023

Great Course! Here I find a lot of step-by-step explanations of how mathematical neural network works. A lot of examples and visualizations(a lot of animation, that can be used, as an experiment) provide a high understanding of what we using, why we using that in a certain situation, and how we can use it in practice programming neural networks. Highly Recommend!

By alex v

Feb 23, 2023

thank you for recovering my knowledgement for math after so many years from pass my Uni

By David B

Mar 17, 2023

I find the teacher engaging and the idea that it is related to machine learning, but the labs are way to focused on machine learning, and i think they are poorly designed so that it is all busy work. Little things kept bothering me, such as how the quizzes pop up and block the slide that contains the information the quiz is asking about. You have to see both the quiz and the screen it is hiding at the same time. Then, I think the labs model poor programming practices such as packing data in and out of Python dictionaries all the time, and then my job is to go through and write code to pack and unpack the Python dictionaries. It is hard for me to write code I think is stupid, expecially when doing so teaches me nothing about either calculus or machine learning.

By Thorsten J

Mar 17, 2023

Since I got in touch with the field of ML/AI I was looking for a course to get a deep understanding of gradient descent. Finally this course made it happen and even more. My highest recommendations and thank you DeepLearning.AI for that great piece of work!

By Michael A W

Feb 28, 2023

This course refresh my knowledge about calculus back in senior high school and even it makes me understand better about calculus and apply it in machine learning.

By Brad F

Jun 2, 2023

Calculus is a very difficult topic and yet the manner in which this course is delivered makes everything so very easy to understand. Incredible.

By Praveen K

May 13, 2023

very very structured. Cant be more thankful to initiatives of Louis Serrano and Andrew NG, What a wonderful human service. Blessings from India

By Michel M F

Feb 3, 2023

The content is fantastic, with a lot of illustrations and examples! Kudos to Luis Serrano and the DeepLearning AI team!

By Hoang Q T

Mar 3, 2023

A good course for beginners. There are formulas that require a pen and paper to think and solve. Brilliant

By Ivan S

Mar 4, 2023

Covers what is needed for ML. Provided examples, quizzes and labs are very helpful. Thank you

By Nam N D

Feb 28, 2023

Those mathematical knowledge taught are very useful

By Toshiki K

Feb 16, 2023

There is a lot of useful knowledge

By Nafis A

Mar 1, 2023

The best I have seen

By Carlos J C M

Feb 26, 2023

So interesting!

By Kayvon P

Oct 7, 2023

Generally quite a good course, but occasionally the instructor glosses over important points or makes implicit assumptions that throw the learner off. One example: In the video “Hessians and concavity”, the instructor misleadingly states “Because all the eigenvalues of this matrix are positive numbers, then the function is concave up and the point (0,0) is a minimum.” But this isn’t strictly true. The function is a minimum if the Eigenvalues of the matrix are positive AND the point is a critical point i.e. has a zero first derivative. It's a pretty fundamental point and I wish the instructor had made that explicit. In addition to this kind of thing, there are quite a few verbal "typos" where the instructor says something that obviously contradicts what's on the slide. Would be nice if those were cleaned up.

By Simone S

Feb 3, 2023

Too simple, only the notebooks are somehow interesting

By Jennifer H

May 21, 2023

Very challenging for a beginner, but very well done! I had to research some of the concepts outside of this course, as I did not understand everything initially. I feel this touched on some very advanced calculus, and I personally needed more assistance (Khan academy, refresher of some algebra practices, etc). I also had to go through some of the videos a couple of times. However, I loved the Python labs! Very nice to apply the calculus we learned immediately in real programming examples. Definitely recommend for anyone interested in data science.

By Julio E

Nov 14, 2023

Excellent course to learn the basics of Calculus in a veeeery progressive way while acquiring essential fundamentals of machine learning itself like multivariate linear regression and classification applied to great examples of neuronal networks. Therefore, you don't only learn abstract mathematical concepts but also it immediate application to machine learning through a very well guided learning approach using well structured and pedagogic Labs and Programming Assignments

By Mai T P

Apr 8, 2023

The course is quite essential for everyone who want to review math for machine learning. One outstanding point 's the course is intuitively all of theory. You can easily image derivative and the relationship between first derivative and second derivative. Moreover, you may learn the concept about machine learning and apply it to python code. Beside that, if you had experience about math, it may be too easier than you expect.

By Natalia E

Dec 4, 2023

That was challenging, but doable! The course helps you understand the maths behind ML. Would totally recommend it to anyone who's preparing to enter the field of Data Science and Machine Learning. It took me longer than I expected though, at times needed to review some Khan Academy materials. The instructor is very good!

By Darren N

Mar 25, 2023

Luis Serrano is an excellent teacher, who balances explaining the topics very well but also at a level that is challenging and spurs independent thinking. The labs were very helpful & especially in learning exactly what goes on in all the layers of a neural network. Looking forward to the next course with him!

By sidnei f

Aug 26, 2023

The course was GREAT!!!

I finally understood how calculus is used in machine learning. Now I feel I have some understanding on the subject. Luis is a great teacher, he explains all the inner workings of the theory. The depth how the subject is approached makes the learning process much more rewarding.

By Sowmiya R

May 13, 2023

I learnt the basic calculus used in Neural Networks and many more theoretical and practical concepts involved, from this course. I truly feel excited to explore more. It's well-structured and packed with knowledge. A great course for a beginner like me. Thanks to the team and the mentor.