Introduction to Deep Learning

This talk was part of Programming Club, IIT Kanpur’s talk on introduction to deep learning. This talk was targeted for freshers and sophomores (both UG and PG) who are starting with machine learning. It covered topics like the most popular convex cost functions, activation functions and gradient descent, along with hands-on coding experience of these topics. It served as a medium of introducing deep learning to the campus community and as a starting step to explore more complex topics.