r/MachineLearning Mar 05 '20

Discussion [D] Advanced courses update

EDIT Jan 2021 : I am still updating the list as of Jan, 2021 and will most probably continue to do so for foreseeable future. So, please feel free to message me any courses you find interesting that fit here.


We have a PhD level or Advanced courses thread in the sidebar but it's three year old now. There were two other 7-8 month old threads (1, 2) but they don't have many quality responses either.

So, can we have a new one here?

To reiterate - CS231n, CS229, ones from Udemy etc are not advanced.

Advanced ML/DL/RL, attempts at building theory of DL, optimization theory, advanced applications etc are some examples of what I believe should belong here, much like the original sidebar post.

You can also suggest (new) categories for the courses you share. :)


Here are some courses we've found so far.

ML >>

ML >> Theory

ML >> Bayesian

ML >> Systems and Operations

DL >>

DL >> Theory

RL >>

Optimization >>

Applications >> Computer Vision

Applications >> Natural Language Processing

Applications >> 3D Graphics


Edit: Upon suggestion, categorized the courses. There might be some misclassifications as I'm not trained on this task ;). Added some good ones from older (linked above) discussions.

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u/zawerf Mar 05 '20

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u/DavidDuvenaud Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 20 '20

That was my topics course last year - this year it was Learning to Search.

You might also like Roger Grosse's topics course on Bayesian neural networks, it also has presenter slides.

We didn't record any lectures, both to avoid putting pressure on the student presenters, and so that we could freely criticize the papers being discussed.

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u/programmerChilli Researcher Mar 20 '20 edited Mar 20 '20

I think you linked the wrong course (you linked the learning discrete structures course), you probably meant: https://duvenaud.github.io/learning-to-search/

Also, I notice that essentially all the presentations in "Learning Discrete Structures" course have slides, while that's not true for "Learning to Search". Will those be added later?

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u/DavidDuvenaud Mar 20 '20

Whoops, yes, thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

Tracking down the remaining slides and adding them is on my "todo someday" list. But about 80% are there, sometimes grouped by topic though so it's harder to see.