Update: Dr. Le has posted tutorials on this topic: Part 1 and Part 2.

Dr. Quoc Le from the Google Brain project team (yes, the one that made headlines for creating a cat recognizer) presented a series of lectures at the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS ’14) in Pittsburgh this week. This is my favorite lecture series from the event till now and I was glad to be able to attend them.

The good news is that the organizers have made available the entire set of video lectures in 4K for you to watch. But since Dr. Le did most of them on a blackboard and did not provide any accompanying slides, I decided to put the brief content descriptions of the lectures along with the videos here. Hope this will help you navigate the videos better.

Lecture 1: Neural Networks Review

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Dr. Le begins his lecture starting from the fundamentals on Neural Networks if you’d like to brush up your knowledge about them. Otherwise feel free to quickly skim through the initial sections, but I promise there are interesting things later on. You may use the links below to skip to the relevant parts. The links are using an experimental script, let me know in the comments if they don’t work.

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Lecture 2: NNs in Practice

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If you have already covered NN in the past then the first lecture may have been a bit dry for you but the real fun begins in this lecture when Dr. Le starts talking about his experiences of using deep learning in practice.

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Lecture 3: Deep NN Architectures

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In this lecture, Dr. Le finishes his description on NN architectures. He also talks a bit about how they are being used at Google – for applications in image and speech recognition, and language modelling.

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