Building production-ready deep learning systems requires fluency across multiple architecture families and modern MLOps tooling. This course covers core neural architectures used in modern AI engineering, from convolutional and sequence models to Transformers and generative systems, alongside the practical toolchain required to build, track, and evaluate them.

Core Neural Architectures & Generative Models
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Core Neural Architectures & Generative Models
This course is part of Microsoft Deep Learning Engineering with Azure Professional Certificate

Instructor: Microsoft
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What you'll learn
Design and train CNN architectures, including ResNet and ConvNeXt with transfer learning and data augmentation pipelines.
Implement LSTM, GRU, and Temporal Convolutional Networks for sequence classification and time series forecasting.
Engineer Transformer attention blocks from scratch and fine-tune BERT and ViT models using Hugging Face Transformers.
Implement and evaluate generative models including VAEs, GANs, and Diffusion pipelines using Hugging Face Diffusers.
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