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In this course, you will: - Learn about GANs and their applications - Understand the intuition behind the fundamental components of GANs - Explore and implement multiple GAN architectures - Build conditional GANs capable of generating examples from determined categories The DeepLearning.AI Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization provides an exciting introduction to image generation with GANs, charting a path from foundational concepts to advanced techniques through an easy-to-understand approach. It also covers social implications, including bias in ML and the ways to detect it, privacy preservation, and more. Build a comprehensive knowledge base and gain hands-on experience in GANs. Train your own model using PyTorch, use it to create images, and evaluate a variety of advanced GANs. This Specialization provides an accessible pathway for all levels of learners looking to break into the GANs space or apply GANs to their own projects, even without prior familiarity with advanced math and machine learning research....

Top reviews

KM

Jul 20, 2023

Helped me clarify the some of key principles and theories behind GAN and bit of history... The references/additional study materials are very useful, if you want to dig deep into. Overall very pleased

HL

Mar 10, 2022

Great introductory to GANs, focused on the building blocks to neural net/ GANs, and a bit of frequently used models. Might need a small update on what's considered "state-of-the-art" in the course.

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By Adarsh J

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Jul 27, 2021

Good

By jiangli

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Jan 11, 2021

nice

By Martin J

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Nov 23, 2020

An excellent course to bring one up to speed with current developments in GANs. Quite a bit of reading around the subject, in addition to the references provided, is necessary, particularly if you are new to using pytorch or python. But the accompanying Slack support is a life line.

I think this course is even more effective if you have the basics and want to review your state of knowledge and get a bit deeper in to the subject. Otherwise (particularly if you are fitting this in to your other activities), regard the time estimates for the assignments as wildly optimistic: multiply by 150% and use the next highter time unit.

But don't let that put you off, GANs aren't easy whichever way you look at them (unless you invented them)

By Jonathan R

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Jul 24, 2021

Great material so far, the lecture videos are clear and concise. And (most) of the reasoning behind the mathematics and decisions are explained, so you would ideally be able to then go and engineer your own ideas and understand why you make the decisions you do. The addition of extended learning resources was also useful (e.g. published papers) - I would love to see more of this kind of teaching, where the lessons equip you to be able to read, understand and implement material from research papers. Since deep learning is (still) an extremely active field of research, every practitioner needs to have the tools available to keep learning and understanding

By Ahmed A

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Oct 15, 2020

The course is a great introduction to GANs. The explanation was simple and to point and the slides are great with the key points in the first few seconds and also with the summary at the end. However, there are some points that I did not like throughout the course. 1- some concepts that need to be well disgusted are just thrown in a 2 min video, and no matter how I repeat that video, I still can't get it because it is not so intuitive, so some points need more explanation ex: Wasserstein loss. 2- The assignments were not so helpful, I guess you should let the learner to code more than that.

By Vinayak N

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Oct 21, 2020

The course is pretty awesome for a beginner who is trying to understand the world of GANs. It provides a good deal of theory lectures and inspires the need for GANs by showing the areas in which they're used with examples.

The exercises, although good aren't sufficient; in the sense we're only required to tweak a very small amount of code and the boilerplate for most code is given. But the exercises as a whole are really cool!

By Sami D

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Oct 12, 2020

Great lectures and exercises in "digestible portions". The course explained the GAN basics first and then built upon that base knowledge in a gentle and well though way. You always think that by just reading papers and reviewing reference implementations you can master some new ML-area, but this kind of course is so much more fun with materials, community and support.

By Neelkanth R

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Jul 28, 2022

1. good introductory course for absolute beginners.

2. The instructor speaks very monotonically and it seems she is reading a script. Explainations could be a lot better.

3. A suggestion: Incorporate optional part in the lecture series as they contain more important and detailed mathematical explanations, which tbh i expected the instructor to cover in the course

By Jeremy S

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Mar 19, 2021

This course is great view into GANs. The lectures often briefly review the basics of topics like neural nets or convolutions, yet still offer advanced (optional) lessons and journal articles to read.

I rated 4 stars instead of 5 because I could not find printable/PDF notes for the course, unlike some other courses.

By Adrian Y X

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Nov 24, 2020

Sharon does a great job of teaching concepts, and the course follows well from the Deep Learning Specialization. You will find that while the code exercises start out facile, you will require some help on the Slack channel, almost no code support is given in course (in contrast to Nanodegree programs).

By Bhushan D

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Feb 19, 2023

Really excellent course I didn't have much problem following along with the lectures although some coding exercises could be made clear it was a great learning experience. There should be some more notes visualizing the generator architecture as the number of layers in the generator are not clear.

By Sandeep W

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Oct 4, 2020

I think this is a bit too basic, there are some areas where i believe some more maths and theory might be appropriate. IE specifically the video section prior to W4B programming exercise with the latent z space manipulation to target disentanglement of features.

By Alejandro

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Aug 6, 2021

Very good course to understand key concepts of GANs. However, I think it would benefit from building small blocks of GANs at a time and see how we end up with a functional model, instead of giving us a notebook where we have to fill few lines of code.

By GAURAV A

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Oct 7, 2020

Good for basic GAN knowledge. Good for Pytorch knowhow, if you are new to it. Concepts are explained in easy to understand way.

More mathematical explanations on probability distributions of real and fake images, Their distances would have been better

By Bob S

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Nov 4, 2020

FYI to course creators...

Almost without exception, the correct answer to the quiz questions was the longest answer. I know the quizzes are not graded, nevertheless the consistency of this pattern reduces the value of the quizzes as a learning tool.

By Yağız S

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Nov 29, 2023

Perfect course. I wish we would have more detailed explanations or visualizations of the steps of GAN architectures. Also, W4 conditional GAN assignment grader could't run my code on the first even it has passed the test in the assignment.

By Yash R

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Feb 12, 2022

I don't like that it skips a lot of mathematics behind the concepts. The programming assingments were nice. I would really really like it if they also added mathematical explanation behind the concepts taught. Otherwise it was a nice course.

By Feng T

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Mar 29, 2022

Good course!

My suggestion is that we need to add more detailed examples (with numbers) (not just shown in the assignment) immediately after the introduction of a model, which will significantly help the students to understand the model.

By Ibrahim G

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Oct 20, 2020

The course was very good, only complaint is that assignment w4b was a little vague, in terms of comments on the code and even the fact that no paper or explanation was offered in the course for in depth implementation of the algorithm.

By Rustem G

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Nov 25, 2020

Great material and instructors. Enjoyed watching videos and taking assignments.

Assignments could have been more difficult if we assume most people have taken the deep learning specialization or are familiar with deep learning.

Thanks

By Stijn M

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Jan 13, 2021

I love the explanation and what you actually do in this course. However, if I were to use this to evaluate whether a candidate for a job can work with GANs in practice, I think the complexity for passing the exercises is too low.

By Paul M

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Oct 15, 2020

Nice material, but the assignments are extremely rudimentary (paint by numbers/fill in the blanks). Perhaps you could provide more advanced (even ungraded, if that's the challenge) assignments for folks that want them?

Thanks

By Debdulal D

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Dec 31, 2020

The voice over was pretty fast and hard to understand, so had to do lots of sliding window in video to understand the topics. Otherwise this course is fantastic gateway to understand GAN and it's applicability.

By Sanjay K

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Apr 25, 2022

The Teacher is awesome the way she explains the concepts through great examples. I wish the exercises were a little bit more handson and independent (most of the code structure is already there).

By Greg H

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Aug 24, 2022

Great material. At times, I think there wasn't enough explanation to get the right answers for the assignments, I needed to guess at times and not completely understand what was going on.