Gain insights into JAX and Flax's features for deep learning. Learn about optimizers, functions, data loading, and model training. Explore hands-on projects for practical experience.

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This course comprehensively introduces JAX and Flax, two open-source libraries that have gained prominence for their efficiency, flexibility, and scalability in deep learning applications. 

In this course, you’ll explore deep learning principles and understand the unique features of JAX and Flax. You will learn the basics of JAX, optimizers using JAX and Flax, and loss and activation functions. You’ll also learn how to load datasets, perform classification using distributed learning, and use ResNet and LSTM models. In the end, you will complete a project for hands-on experience using JAX and Flax for transfer learning. 

By the end of the course, you’ll be proficient in implementing and customizing neural network models using JAX and Flax, equipped with hands-on skills in advanced optimization and distributed training.

Deep Learning with JAX and Flax

accelerated stochastic gradient descent (SGD), Adam

adaptive, accelerated stochastic gradient descent (SGD)

**(Fill in the blanks.)** Optimizers can be classified into two broad categories: ________ and ________.

(Fill in the blanks.) Optimizers can be classified into two broad categories: ________ and ________.

**(True or False)** JAX ships with all the optimizers you need. 

(True or False) JAX ships with all the optimizers you need.

Which optimizer performs weight decay optimization? 

Which optimizer performs weight decay optimization?

Which optimizer has poor generalization?

Which optimizer applies a global learning rate on all parameters?

Which optimizer applies a global learning rate on all parameters?

`optimizer = jax.adabelief(learning_rate)`

`optimizer = flax.adabelief(learning_rate)`

`optimizer = opax.adabelief(learning_rate)`

`optimizer = optax.adabelief(learning_rate)`

Which is the correct initialization for the AdaBelief optimizer?

Which is the correct initialization for the AdaBelief optimizer?

Take a short quiz to test your understanding.

Course Introduction

Basics of JAX

Optimizers in JAX and Flax

Loss and Activation Functions

Load Datasets in JAX

Image Classification and Distributed Training

TensorBoard and State Handling

LSTM in JAX and Flax

Flax vs. TensorFlow

Using ResNet Model in Flax

Transfer Learning in JAX and Flax

Conclusion

Appendix

Quiz: Optimizers