cliobeach/a-walk-with-fastai2

My material for my fastai 2.0 lectures for Spring semester

A walk with fastai2 (January 2020 - April 2020)

NOTE! THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANSCISCO VERSION

This course will run from January 15th until May and will be live-streamed on YouTube. Each lecture will be between an hour to an hour and 15 minutes, followed by an hour to work on projects related to the course.

Requirements:

• A Google account to utilize Google Colaboratory
• A Paperspace account for Natural Language Processing

The overall schedule is broken up into blocks as such:

BLOCKS:

• Block 1: Computer Vision
• Block 2: Tabular Neural Networks
• Block 3: Natural Language Processing

Here is the overall schedule broken down by week: This schedule is subject to change

Block 1 (January 15th - February 26th):

• Lesson 1: PETs and Custom Datasets (a warm introduction to the DataBlock API)
• Lesson 2: Image Classification Models from Scratch, Stochastic Gradient Descent
• Lesson 3: Multi-Label Classification, and Dealing with Unknown Labels
• Lesson 4: Image Segmentation, Image Regression, State-of-the-Art in Computer Vision
• Lesson 5: Pose Detection and Style Transfer
• Lesson 6: Image Generation and Super Resolution
• Lesson 7: Audio, Object Detection

Block 2 (March 4th - March 25th):

• Lesson 1: Pandas Workshop and Tabular Classification
• Lesson 2: Feature Engineering and Tabular Regression
• Lesson 3: Permutation Importance, Bayesian Optimization, Cross-Validation, and Labeled Test Sets
• Lesson 4: Kaggle Competitions, RAPIDs.AI

BLOCK 3 (April 1st - April 22nd):

• Lesson 1: Introduction to NLP and the LSTM
• Lesson 2: Full Sentiment Classification, Tokenizers, and Ensembling
• Lesson 3: Other State-of-the-Art NLP Models and Multilingual Data
• Lesson 4: DeViSe

We have a Group Study discussion [here] on the Fast.AI forums for discussing this material and asking specific questions.

• NOTE: This course does not have a certification or credit. This is something I have been doing for the past few semesters to help branch fellow Undergraduates at my school into the world of fastai, and this year I am making it much more available.