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About the program
Fusemachines Democratizing AI Education
A MicrodegreeTM program for Artificial Intelligence is an accelerated
learning program in Artificial Intelligence. The MicrodegreeTM
program is created by the leading US university faculty members and
AI industry experts. It is specifically designed to upskill engineers/
domain experts with AI and Data Science expertise.

Program Outcomes
Participants will garner data science and ML skills with hands-on experience in
real world problem
Participants will develop a solid understanding of Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning, and Deep Learning algorithms with an understanding of
underlying math and programming practice
Select and implement appropriate algorithms, libraries, frameworks, and
techniques for different problem
Run experiments to assess the performance, evaluate and compare different
models to design and deploy an end-to-end pipeline
Course Schedule

24 Weeks Method of Teaching

21 weeks course work
Pace of course: 14 Hours/Wee

+
Lectures: 4 Hours/Wee

3 weeks Project work

Self-study: 10 hours/Week

Blended Learning Assessment Grading

Most of the content will be available Online (Quiz, Assignments) + In-Class (Exams,

online to be viewed on their own pac Projects, Class Activities

Online Live Discussion by Academics Target Audience / Prerequisite

and Industry Experts weekl

Engineering students, IT students [3rd year students],

Programming Assignment Graduates and professionals wh

Quizze have taken courses on Linear Algebra, Probability,

Statistics, and Basic Calculu

Final Examinatio

have taken some programming and computer

Group Project
science course
Paper reading session
are able to program in pytho
Case Studies from Fusemachine
Soft skills: Fluent in English, Good communication
Community Project
skills, Teamwork, learning attitude

There will be an eligibility test to check if students have enough foundation skills to

take the course.

Aptitude test
;
Programming solve problems with Python programming using appropriate data structures and

algorithm

Applied Maths: use Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability, and Statistics to solve problem

Computer Science topics: DSA, Algorithms, Database and Basics of AI & Machine Learnin

Software Development Skills: Git, R

est, SQ

IQ & General K nowledg

Behavioral Questions
Program Features

Live Online Lectures and Guest Lecture

Weekly Lecture Session

Recordings of live classes available

Access to AI Enabled Online Classroom Platform

Course Video

Reading Material

Programming Notebook

Practice Quizze

Graded Programming Assignment

Proctored exam

Case Studies and Paper readin

Group Project

Kaggle Competitions

Guest lectures on applied topics: Git, deployment,

application on specific domains

Student Community Forum, Fuse classroom platform,

and Slack

Access on Mobile and Desktop

Certificate of Completion

Recommendation letter (as needed)

Enrollment Steps

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Online Application Online entrance exam Online interview Enrollment

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 Syllabus

Week 1
Introduction to AI/ML and Data Science

After completing this module, students should be able to

Show and understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning and
other relevant terminologie
Describe different categories of AI, the types of machine learning and their application
Represent problem into appropriate states data structure to be solved with appropriate
Search Agents (Blind, Heuristics, Local or Adversarial Search
Write a search agent algorithm to solve search problems

Assignment

Puzzle Problem Solving with Search Agent

Week 2
Data Wrangling

After completing this module, students should be able to

Recognized different data types and data attribute

Scrape data from the internet
Clean data quality issues in dataset
Apply data normalization and scalin
Deal with data outliers and anomalie
Visualize dataset using different plots

Assignment

WebScraping Wikipedia page

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Analyze and visualize a dataset to gain insights and
discover patterns
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Week 3
Regression & Classification Models

After completing this module, students should be able to

Define basic machine learning terminologies

Create a linear regression model for predicting continuous values from dat
Create a logistic regression model for predicting classes
Write gradient descent algorithm (Stochastic and Batch Gradient Descent) to train the linear
regression and logistic regression model
Evaluate the performance of regression and classification models using various metric
To find out and improve Overfit or Underfit model
Implement regularization to improve model performance
Build, train and evaluate Regression and Classification models with Scikit-learn

Assignment on Predictive Modeling

Build a regression model to predict students' final grad

Customer Churn Prediction: Build a classification model to predict customer churn based
on historical data

Week 4
Training ML Models

After completing this module, students should be able to

Interpret and visualize the decision surface of an overfitted decision tre

Analyze how noise can cause the decision tree to go unnecessarily dee
Learn how to handle categorical and continuous features when using Naive Baye
Understand the concept of prior and posterior probabilities in Naive Bayes and their role in
the classification proces
Describe Margin Classifier, the slack variables and implement the SVM with slack variable
Understand linearly separable and non-linearly separable dat
Search the nearest neighbor using the K-D Tree algorith
Implement K-NN algorithm for classification and recognize the effect of variation in K-value
Benchmarking models

Assignment

Build a model that can predict multiple genres of a movie based on its plot summary or
other relevant features
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Week 5
Clustering

After completing this module, students should be able to

Examine the effect of centroid initialization in convergence and describe the various
initialization methods in K-means clusterin
Explain and implement DIANA algorithm (Agglomerative, BRICH
Explain density-based clustering and Exemplify terminologies such as ϵ-neighborhood,
density, core points, boundary points, outliers, density reachability, and connectivit
Explain the statistical cluster validation methods

Assignment

Market segmentation: Cluster customers based on their purchasing behavior or

demographic data to identify distinct customer groups

Week 6
Ensemble Methods

After completing this module, students should be able to

Decompose errors into bias, variance, and noise, and identify their causes in a model's poor
performanc
Explain ensemble methods and understand why they work, emphasizing the importance of
diversity and accuracy within ensemblin
Explain bagging and bootstrapping, understand why averaging reduces variance, and list the
advantages of baggin
Understand random forest and differentiate it from bagging, listing the steps involved in
creating a random forest
Distinguish boosting from bagging, explain boosting as a sequential weighted averaging
technique, and discuss its working with an algorithm
Understand the working of and use XGBoost, CatBoost and LightGBM

Assignment

AirBnB guest arrival prediction using tree-based method

Random Forest classifier: Use the Random Forest algorithm to build an ensemble of
decision trees for classification task
Gradient Boosting regression: Implement Gradient Boosting to create an ensemble of
weak learners for regression tasks
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Week 7
Neural Networks

After completing this module, students should be able to

Describe the basics of neural networks and correlate it with biological neurons (this may also
be redundant because of deep learning content
Examine and recognize the problems where the use of Neural network is appropriat
Explain how Perceptron Learning Algorithm helps to learn the parameter for the perceptro
Implement forward and backward propagation for neural networks from scratch as well as
using deep learning libraries such as tensorflow / Pytorc
Explain why multi-layer perceptron are universal approximator

Assignment

Implement artificial neural networks for regression and classification

Week 8
Image Processing, Feature Detection & Matching

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand the principles of image formation, camera geometry, and digital camera
component
Apply projective transformations, perspective transformations, and multi-view geometry
concepts to perform translation, scaling, rotation, and projections in both 2D and 3D spaces
Perform various image processing operations, including pixel transformations, histogram
analysis, noise removal, filtering, sharpening, deblurring, resizing, and morpholog
Used algorithms and filters for edge detection, feature detection and matching techniques,
including corner detection using the Harris Corner Detector and scale-invariant feature
detection using SIFT

Assignment

Edge detection: Implement algorithms like Canny edge detection or Sobel operator to
detect edges in images
Image segmentation using clustering: Apply clustering techniques like K-means or Mean
Shift to segment images into different regions or objects
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Week 9
CNN & Transfer Learning

After completing this module, students should be able to

Visualize the convolution operation in a CNN and point out the distinguishing features of a
CNN in comparison with an AN
Explain the architecture and working principles of CNNs, including convolutional layers,
pooling layers, and fully connected layer
Explain different CNN seminal architecture (VGG, ResNet, InceptionNet) and analyze their
importanc
Identify, select and fine-tune appropriate pre-trained CNN models for different image analysis
task
Application of CNN in Computer vision

Assignment

Image classification with pre-trained models: Fine-tune a pre-trained CNN model like
VGG or ResNet on a new dataset for a specific classification tas
Object detection: Use a pre-trained CNN model like YOLO or SSD to detect and localize
objects in images or videos

Week 10
Deploying ML models

After completing this module, students should be able to

Build a machine learning pipeline: Create an end-to-end pipeline that includes data ingestion,
preprocessing, model training, and deployment in a production environmen
Implement a RESTful API using a web framework and Handle incoming requests and route
them appropriatel
Determine whether the API should be public or private and Implement authentication and
authorization mechanisms
Document API endpoints and functionality Consider rate limiting and other usage control
measure
Select appropriate Deployment Strategies for a given use case: Recreate, Shadow, Canary,
Blue/Green

Assignment

Deploy a Machine Learning model engine with REST API or using streamlit
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Week 11
Object Detection and Segmentation

After completing this module, students should be able to

Develop a comprehensive understanding of object recognition and localization concepts,

including image classification, object detection, and the use of bounding boxes and
performance metric
Understand the problem of computer vision addressed by segmentation and differentiate
between different types of segmentation techniques such as watershed algorithm, K-means
clustering, and mean shift clusterin
Use object detection architectures such as Faster R-CNN, YOLO (You Only Look Once), and
SSD (Single Shot MultiBox Detector) and Segmentation architectures such as U-Net, Mask R-
CNN, and DeepLab

Assignment

Perform Object Detection and Segmentation

Week 12
Recurrent Neural Networks and Transformers

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand the fundamentals of RNN, including the structure of recurrent units, the
computational graph, and backpropagation in RNNs
Gain knowledge of seminal architectures such as Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)
and Gated-Recurrent Units (GRUs
Understand the concept of attention in neural networks, including the motivation behind
using attention mechanisms to address the limitations of sequence-to-sequence
architecture
Learn the different types of attention and Explain transformers, and analyze how it surpasses
architecture like LSTM and GRU

Assignment

Language translation: Build a sequence-to-sequence model using a recurrent neural

network or transformer architecture to translate sentences between language
Text generation: Train a recurrent neural network model to generate text, such as writing
poetry or generating dialogue
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Week 13
Natural Language Processing

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand the relationship between language and knowledge, delve into morphology and
tagging, syntax and parsing, and explore lexical semantics using resources like WordNe
Clean, transform and preprocess text dat
Describe the tf-idf model and implement it using sk-lear
Describe Naive Bayes Classifier in the context of text classificatio
Analyze the problems with using RNN for the long sentence
State the difference between using RNN and CNN for the same NLP task

Assignment

Implementation of POS Tagging from Scratch

Week 14
Language Models & LLMs

After completing this module, students should be able to

Explain Markov Models, Markov Assumptions and find out when to use Markov Model
Discuss n-gram models and apply MLE to estimate n-gram probabilities and discuss
generalization issues in n-gram
Evaluate language models using perplexit
Understand how neural networks are used in language modeling in contrast to n-gram
language modelin
Appraise the semantic property of word embeddings: analogy reasoning with a classic
example of king-man+woman=quee
Understand Large Language Models & pre-training LLM
Understand the current issues and limitations with LLMS: Hallucinations, inconsistency,
model drift, size and training tim
Use Prompt Engineering for in context learning at inference tim
Decide on pre-trained model or pre- training and fine-tuning a custom model for specific use
cases

Assignment

Transfer learning of LLM for text Summarization, Open Domain Chatbot etc
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Week 15
Deep Unsupervised Learning (Part 1)

After completing this module, students should be able to

Get Introduced to Deep Unsupervised Learning

Understand Density Estimation along with its application in Deep Unsupervised Learnin
Understand and Interpreting Auto Regressive Models
Learn about MADE and PixelCN
Recall autoencoders and extend their idea and intuitively understand and explain variational
autoencoders(VAE), and reparameterization tricks

Assignment

Autoencoders for image denoising: Implement an autoencoder model to denoise images

corrupted with noise or artifacts

Week 16
Deep Unsupervised Learning (Part 2)

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand and Train Latent Variable Model

Visualize how mode collapse occurs during the training of GAN
Explain how a poor and great discriminator behavior affects the training process in GAN
Interpret why tracking the performance of GANs is difficul
Understand normalizing flows and implement models with normalizing flows, RealNVP, NICE,
Glo
Explore Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs), analyze their limitations, and understand
different types of GANs (CGAN, WGAN, DCGAN
Explore the cutting-edge world of diffusion-based generative A
Gain deep familiarity with the diffusion process and the models driving it

Assignment

Paper Reading and Implementation of Generative Adversarial Net

Create your own diffusion model from scratch
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Week 17
Foundational Models and Generative AI

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand the concept of foundation models and in context learnin

Identify limitations, potential biases, and ethical considerations associated with using
foundation model
Understand the concept of Large Vision Models
Learn about techniques such as Moranch Mixture Model, Knowledge Distillation, Model
Compression, Data and Model Parallelism to make foundational models more efficient

Week 18
Reinforcement Learning

After completing this module, students should be able to

Discuss the Importance of RL and the type of problem to be solved using Reinforcement
Learnin
Understand the k-armed bandit problem, the Markov property, Policy Iteration and Value
Iteration for solving MD
Solve the Bellman equations for small MRPs to determine the values of stat
Solve the Bellman equations for small MDP
Formulate various prediction and control algorithms of monte carl
Explain the Q-Learning algorith
Explain the Expected Sarsa and It's relationship between Sarsa and Q-Learning

Assignment

Tic-Tac-Toe Game Agent

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Week 19
Reinforcement Learning (continued)

After completing this module, students should be able to

Distinguish continuous problems methods from tabular methods, explain various methods
such as coarse coding, tile codin
Understand the Monte Carlo Methods, Model-free, and how Temporal Difference (TD)
combines Monte Carlo (MC) method and Dynamic Programming (DP
Understand DQN architecture, Double DQN, Dueling DQN, different policy gradient
algorithms, PPO along with advantages and pitfall
Understand the working of the Actor-Critic, and the problem with continuous action space,
and explain how DDPG solves i
Gym ecosystem and RLib

Assignment

Stock market prediction with Double DQN

Week 20
ML as a Services

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand the concept of ML as a Servic

Use apis to access ML services from different providers - OpenAI, AWS, GCP, Azur
Use AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine, and Microsoft Azure Machine
Learnin
Train and deploy ML Models from cloud providers

Assignment

Developing ML product with Cloud services

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Week 21
MLOps

After completing this module, students should be able to

Understand ML in production, its operational workflow and its components. Discuss ML

project lifecycle and how MLOps fits in i
Understand experiment tracking and monitor change in model performance with change in
hyperparameters using MLFlo
Configure DVC for data versioning and use model registry for model
Monitor model and data for Model Stability and Drif
Configure Logging, Monitoring and Triggers for deployment

Assignment

Predicting data drift and model drift

Week 22

Exam & Project work

Week 23

Project Work
Week 24

Project Presentation
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