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Seminar Schedule: Understanding Deep Learning (WS 25/26)

  • Meetings: Mondays, weekly (20 Oct 2025 – 6 Feb 2026), 14.00-16.00, room OH12/1.054
  • Winter break: 22 Dec 2025 – 2 Jan 2026
  • Total students: 19 11
Date Chapters Pages (approx.) Students Notes
20 Oct 2025 Ch. 1–2: Introduction + Supervised Learning Instructor Intro lecture, organization, topic assignment
27 Oct 2025 Ch. 3–4: Shallow & Deep Neural Networks 22 P gr1, D gr2 Fundamentals of network architectures
3 Nov 2025 Ch. 5–6: Loss Functions & Fitting Models 30 P gr3, D gr1 Training objectives and optimization setup
1710 Nov 2025 Ch. 8–9: Performance & Regularization 31 P gr2, D gr3 Evaluation metrics and regularization techniques
1017 Nov 2025 Ch. 7: Gradients & Initialization 15 P gr6, D gr7 Backpropagation & parameter initialization
24 Nov 2025 - - - -
1 Dec 2025 Ch. 12: Transformers 25 P gr5, D gr6 Attention and transformer architectures
8 Dec 2025 Ch. 13: Graph Neural Networks 21 P gr8, D gr9 Graph-based representations
15 Dec 2025 Ch. 10–11: CNNs & Residual Networks 31 P gr9, D gr5 Convolutional structures and ResNets
22 Dec – 2 Jan Winter break No meeting
5 Jan 2026 Ch. 18: Diffusion Models 19 P gr7, D gr4 Modern generative diffusion approaches
12 Jan 2026 Ch. 19: Reinforcement Learning 22 P gr4, D gr8 Policy gradients and deep RL

Groups:

  • gr1 Ponikarov Antonia
  • gr2 Zoghlami Fadi, Ben Halima Ibrahim
  • gr3 Filipiak Lucas, Romanovych Ivanna
  • gr4 Marc Gläser
  • gr5 Fadi Dalbah
  • gr6 Gövert Noah
  • gr7 Semler Alexander
  • gr8 Vu Minh Nhat
  • gr9 Pellecer Aisaiah