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  • Artificial Neural Networks
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Weeks Topics
Week - 1 Course introduction, history of artificial neural networks, and their relation to biological neural systems.
Week - 2 Artificial neuron model, input-output relationships, and basic activation functions (sigmoid, tanh, ReLU).
Week - 3 Structure of single-layer and multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) and introduction to feedforward networks.
Week - 4 Forward propagation and backpropagation algorithms, and loss functions.
Week - 5 Gradient descent and optimization techniques; learning rate and epoch concepts.
Week - 6 Overfitting and regularization techniques, dropout, L1/L2 regularization.
Week - 7 Supervised learning applications: classification and regression problems.
Week - 8 Unsupervised learning and Kohonen networks (self-organizing maps).
Week - 9 Introduction to recurrent neural networks (RNN), applications in time series and sequences.
Week - 10 Hopfield networks and the basic principles of energy-based models.
Week - 11 Introduction to Boltzmann machines and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM).
Week - 12 Fundamentals of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and applications in image processing.
Week - 13 Comparison of network architectures, advantages and disadvantages; real-world data applications.
Week - 14 Presentation of term projects, overall evaluation, and brief look at advanced topics.

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