Optimization is required for any AI model to deliver reliable outcomes in most of the use cases. AI Practitioners use their knowledge of optimization techniques to choose and apply various solutions and improve accuracy of existing models. In this course, you'll learn about advanced optimization techniques for AI Development, including multiple optimization approaches like Gradient Descent, Momentum, Adam, AdaGrad and RMSprop optimization. You'll examine how to determine the preferred optimization technique to use and the overall benefits of optimization in AI. Lastly, you'll have a chance to practice implementing optimization techniques from scratch and applying them to real AI models.

AI Practitioner is a cross-industry advanced AI Developer position that has a growing demand in the modern world. Candidates for this role need to demonstrate proficiency in optimizing and tuning AI solutions to deliver the best possible performance in the real world. AI Practitioners require more advanced knowledge of algorithm implementations and should have a firm knowledge of latest toolsets available. In this course, you'll be introduced to the AI Practitioner role in the industry. You'll examine an AI Practitioner's skillset and responsibilities in relation to AI Developers, Data Scientists, and ML and AI Engineers. Finally, you'll learn about the scope of work for AI Practitioners, including their career opportunities and pathways.

Tuning hyper parameters when developing AI solutions is essential since the same models might behave quite differently with different parameters set. AI Practitioners recognize multiple hyper parameter tuning approaches and are able to quickly determine best set of hyper parameters for particular models using AI toolbox. In this course, you'll learn advanced techniques for hyper parameter tuning for AI development. You'll examine how to recognize the hyper parameters in ML and DL models. You'll learn about multiple hyper parameter tuning approaches and when to use each approach. Finally, you'll have a chance to tune hyper parameters for a real AI project using multiple techniques.