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Deep Learning Boot Camp

Spring 2024

Feb 2, 2024

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May 3, 2024

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Registration Deadlines

May 4, 2024

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Erdős members / alumni who have completed a prior Erdős Data Science Project

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Category

Advance, Supplemental, Self-Directed, Mini-Course

Overview

This is a self-paced deep learning boot camp, using the FastAI book as the foundation (http://course.fast.ai). It is suggested you take 12-15 weeks to go through the material. If possible, you should meet with others to have a weekly discussion group on the material.

In order to receive a deep learning certificate, you must submit a (team-based) final project by **May 03, 2024**.

Slack

Click here to be invited to the slack organization: The Erdős Institute

Click here to access the slack cohort channel: #slack-cohort-channel

Click here to access the slack program channel: #slack-program-channel

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Click here to download the Events & Deadlines .ics calendar file

Organizers, Instructors, and Advisors

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Lindsay Warrenburg

Lead Instructor

Office Hours:

as needed

Email:

Preferred Contact:

Slack

Participants should feel free to Slack me with any questions or comments!

Objectives

- Learn the basics of deep learning
- Understand how deep learning is used in industry
- Feel comfortable with deep learning code (PyTorch and FastAI)

Project Examples

TEAM 2

Deep Learning Models for Colorectal Polyp Detection

Ruibo Zhang, Rebekah Eichberg, Betul Senay Aras, Kevin Specht, Arthur Diep-Nguyen

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A polyp is an abnormal tissue growth in the large intestine that is typically benign but can develop into malignant colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy enables endoscopists to identify and assess these polyps for potential removal. However, the accuracy of this procedure depends heavily on the clinician’s expertise, making it prone to human error and variability. Our goal is to build a deep-learning model that detects colorectal polyps in images from colonoscopies to minimize missed lesions and improve patient outcomes.

TEAM 12

Fraud Detection with Deep Learning

Jude Pereira, Yang Yang, Adrian Wong, Sara Edelman-Munoz, Mary Reith

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Fraud detection is a critical area where deep learning has been effectively applied to identify and prevent unauthorized transactions, money laundering, and other financial crimes. Traditional rule-based systems and statistical models often struggle to detect sophisticated fraud patterns, particularly when dealing with large volumes of data and rapidly evolving fraud techniques. In contrast, deep learning models, such as CNNs, RNNs, and autoencoders, have proven highly effective in analyzing complex, high-dimensional transaction data and detecting subtle, non-linear patterns indicative of fraudulent activity.
In this project, we build a User ID-based fraud detection model using autoencoders, trained on unlabelled real-world credit card transaction data, capable of detecting fraud with a precision of up to 35% and a recall of up to 72%, performing significantly better than traditional ML/statistical baseline models..

First Steps/Prerequisites

Participants must have completed the data science bootcamp before taking this course.
First Steps

Program Content

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Course materials are available on github through the following link:

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Program Content

Textbook/Notes

Note: our video player does not support playback speed options. You can find a third party browser extension which will allow you to modify video playback speed. For example, this one works for Chrome: video-speed-controller. If you would prefer to avoid a browser extension you can manually modify the playback speed in the javascript console as well: Speed up any HTML5 video player!

Orientation

Introduction

Lindsay Warrenburg introduces the structure of this advanced Deep Learning Course.

Transcript
Code

Aware

Corporate Project Description

Jason Morgan, VP of Aware, discusses the problem and possible solutions to get started. Slides button for project description. Code button for dataset.

Transcript

DataBoard

Demo for generating synthetic data

Jim Schwoebel, Engineering Manager at Verily, shows his new product. If you are interested in generating your own synthetic dataset for your project, then please contact Jim and Roman on slack.

Slides
Transcript
Code

Project/Homework Instructions

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Project/Team Formation
Project Submission
Projects README

Schedule

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Orientation & Setup Week
Phase 1 - Instruction and Project Completion
Project Review & Judging
Phase 2 - Intense Interview Prep & Career Connections

Deep Learning Orientation

Feb 2, 2024 at 05:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Aware Corporate Challenge Introduction

Mar 1, 2024 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Project/Homework Deadlines

Feb 2, 2024

10:00 PM UTC

Deep Learning Registration Form

This is used to gain access to Slack / Github and to help find teams in similar time zones

Feb 9, 2024

02:34 PM UTC

Deep Learning Group Formation

This is your study group team and your project team

May 3, 2024

09:00 PM UTC

Deep Learning Final Project Due

Click on this box to submit project

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