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TLDR

A curated directory of books, courses, papers, datasets, and tools for learning deep learning, the AI technique where computers learn from data using layered mathematical models.

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    Learning Resources
      Books intro to advanced
      University courses
      Online platforms
      Video lectures
    Practical Materials
      Research papers
      Datasets
      Software frameworks
    How to Use
      Starting point
      Reference guide
      Tool discovery
    Content Organization
      Clearly labeled sections
      Progressive difficulty
      Multiple formats
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Find beginner-friendly books and courses to start learning deep learning from scratch.

USE CASE 2

Discover university-level lectures and online classes from top institutions like Stanford and MIT.

USE CASE 3

Locate datasets and software frameworks to practice building your own deep learning models.

USE CASE 4

Reference the list as you advance to find specialized papers and tools for specific deep learning tasks.

What is it built with?

Deep LearningNeural NetworksMachine Learning

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
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In plain English

Awesome Deep Learning is a curated list of resources for people who want to study deep learning, the branch of machine learning that uses neural networks. The list is maintained on GitHub by Christos Christofidis, follows the well-known Awesome-list convention, and points readers to outside material rather than hosting any teaching content itself. The contents are organized into a long table of links, grouped into sections: books, courses, video lectures, papers, tutorials, researchers, websites, datasets, conferences, frameworks, tools, and a miscellaneous bucket. The books section lists titles such as Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville's Deep Learning, Michael Nielsen's Neural Networks and Deep Learning, the interactive d2l.ai textbook, and a long run of Manning press books on more specific topics like JAX, evolutionary methods, regularization, TensorFlow, and deep learning for natural language processing. The courses section is the longest portion shown. It links to university lectures from Stanford, including Andrew Ng's original Coursera machine learning class, the convolutional networks class taught by Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, and the natural language class from CS224d. It also points to courses at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Berkeley, Oxford, Waterloo, and the University of Amsterdam, plus free industry offerings like Udacity's Deep Learning with Google, Fast.ai's Practical Deep Learning for Coders, and OpenAI's Spinning Up in Deep Reinforcement Learning. A few entries are short bootcamps, others are full graduate-level sequences. The purpose of the repo is bookmarking. Someone new to the field can open the table of contents, pick a format that suits them (book, course, paper, framework documentation), and follow the link out to the source. The README does not rank entries, does not recommend a learning path, and does not provide any code of its own. Readers choose based on their own background. Because it is a list, the repo has no install steps and nothing to run, it is a static document of links, kept current through pull requests from contributors.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to learn deep learning from the start. What books and courses should I check out first?
Prompt 2
Show me how to use this awesome-deep-learning list to find datasets and frameworks for my first neural network project.
Prompt 3
Help me navigate the deep learning resources in this repo to find research papers on a specific topic.
Prompt 4
I'm intermediate in deep learning. How do I use this curated list to discover advanced tools and datasets?

Frequently asked questions

What is awesome-deep-learning?

A curated directory of books, courses, papers, datasets, and tools for learning deep learning, the AI technique where computers learn from data using layered mathematical models.

What license does awesome-deep-learning use?

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How hard is awesome-deep-learning to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is awesome-deep-learning for?

Mainly general.

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