Electrical and Computer Engineering 541: A Computational Introduction to Deep Learning
University of Southern California, Spring 2026
Schedule
Week 1
| Jan 12: | Lecture 1 Deep Learning Principles and Paradigms | |
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| Demo 1 Demos | ||
| Homework 1 Homework 1 | ||
| Reading 1 Reading 1 |
No Class -- No class, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Week 2
| Jan 26: | Lecture 2 Python Fundamentals | |
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| Homework 2 Homework 2 | ||
| Reading 2 Reading 2 |
Week 3
| Feb 2: | Lecture 3 MMSE Estimation and Prediction | |
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| Demo 3 Demos | ||
| Homework 3 Homework 3 | ||
| Reading 3 Reading 3 |
Week 4
| Feb 9: | Lecture 4 Regression, Maximum Likelihood, and Information Theory | |
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| Demo 4 Demos | ||
| Homework 4 Homework 4 | ||
| Reading 4 Reading 4 |
No Class -- No class, Presidents' Day
Week 5
| Feb 23: | Lecture 5 Classification and Logistic Regression | |
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| Homework 5 Homework 5 | ||
| Reading 5 Reading 5 |
Week 6
| Mar 2: | Lecture 6 Backpropagation | |
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| Homework 6 Homework 6 | ||
| Reading 6 Reading 6 |
Week 7
| Mar 9: | Quiz 1 Weeks 1--6 | Sample -- Fall 2024 (Thursday, 09 October @ 12:00) |
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No Class -- No class, Spring Break
Week 8
| Mar 23: | Lecture 7 PyTorch: Introduction | |
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| Homework 7 Homework 7 | ||
| Reading 8 Reading 8 |
Week 9
| Mar 30: | Lecture 8 PyTorch: Building MLPs | |
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| Homework 8 Homework 8 | ||
| Reading 9 Reading 9 |
Week 10
| Apr 6: | Lecture 9 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) | |
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| Homework 9 Homework 9 | ||
| Reading 10 Reading 10 |
Week 11
| Apr 13: | Lecture 10 Project Overview. Convolutional Architectures | |
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| Reading 11 Reading 11 | ||
| Project Project Overview | ||
| Apr 17: | Project Project Proposal Due |
Week 12
| Apr 20: | Lecture 11 PyTorch: Optimizing Training. Data Engineering | |
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| Reading 12 Reading 12 |
Week 13
| Apr 27: | Lecture 12 Auto-encoders and Embedding. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) | |
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| Reading 13 Reading 13 |
Week 14
| May 4: | Quiz 2 Weeks 8--13 | Sample -- Fall 2024 (Friday, 28 November @ 12:00) |
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| May 8: | Project Project Deliverables Due (17:00) |
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