Understanding Deep Learning
A modern MIT Press textbook by Simon Prince, free as a PDF, that goes from shallow networks and backpropagation through convolutional networks, residual networks and transformers to diffusion models, with Python notebooks for each chapter. The diagrams do a lot of the teaching, and it is far more current than the older deep learning textbooks.
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Simon J.D. Prince
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A modern MIT Press textbook by Simon Prince, free as a PDF, that goes from shallow networks and backpropagation through convolutional networks, residual networks and transformers to diffusion models, with Python notebooks for each chapter. The diagrams do a lot of the teaching, and it is far more current than the older deep learning textbooks.
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