Teaching Deep Learning, a boisterous ever-evolving field

Alfredo Canziani

TL;DR: Best practices developed by the author in their last decade of teaching experience.

Abstract: Machine and deep learning techniques are actively being developed with over 150 papers submitted daily to arXiv, each of which is introducing its own notation. To offer a course that reflects the latest developments of the field and illustrate them in a cohesive and consistent manner, one needs to systematically consume the literature, summarise and standardise it, implement working examples, and deliver a concise and consistent presentation of a given topic. This paper reports all the best practices developed by the author in their last decade of teaching experience.