Deep Learning: Making It Trainable

Geometry, Dynamics, and the Machine

Course book for DS 6210 — Computation II: Numerical Analysis & Optimization (Algorithms for Deep Learning), School of Data Science, University of Virginia.

The HTML edition is canonical; PDF is derived.

Local build

export OPT_BOOK_ENV=/absolute/path/outside/Box/opt-book/.venv
UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT="$OPT_BOOK_ENV" uv sync
QUARTO_PYTHON="$OPT_BOOK_ENV/bin/python" quarto render

Run fast audits:

"$OPT_BOOK_ENV/bin/python" scripts/run_fast_audits.py

Project conventions and current state live in docs/.