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Deep Learning: Advanced Natural Language Processing and RNNs (Udemy.com)

Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq), Attention, CNNs, RNNs, and Memory Networks!

Created by: Lazy Programmer Inc.

Last updated July 2026

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What you will learn

  • Build a text classification system (can be used for spam detection, sentiment analysis, and similar problems)
  • Build a neural machine translation system (can also be used for chatbots and question answering)
  • Build a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model
  • Build an attention model
  • Build a memory network (for question answering based on stories)
  • Understand important foundations for OpenAI ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion

How it compares

Against the other 126 rated Udemy courses in Deep Learning on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 65% of them
  • Reviews7,747#8 of 127 by number of reviews
  • Length8.4 hoursshorter than 54% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2026more recently than 88% of them

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Course Description

Ever wondered how AI technologies like OpenAI ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion really work? In this course, you will learn the foundations of these groundbreaking applications.

It’s hard to believe it's been been over a year since I released my first course on Deep Learning with NLP (natural language processing).

A lot of cool stuff has happened since then, and I've been deep in the trenches learning, researching, and accumulating the best and most useful ideas to bring them back to you.

So what is this course all about, and how have things changed since then?

In previous courses, you learned about some of the fundamental building blocks of Deep NLP. We looked at RNNs (recurrent neural networks), CNNs (convolutional neural networks), and word embedding algorithms such as word2vec and GloVe.

This course takes you to a higher systems level of thinking.

Since you know how these things work, it’s time to build systems using these components.

At the end of this course, you'll be able to build applications for problems like:

  • text classification (examples are sentiment analysis and spam detection)

  • neural machine translation

  • question answering


We'll take a brief look chatbots and as you’ll learn in this course, this problem is actually no different from machine translation and question answering.

To solve these problems, we’re going to look at some advanced Deep NLP techniques, such as:

  • bidirectional RNNs

  • seq2seq (sequence-to-sequence)

  • attention

  • memory networks


All of the materials of this course can be downloaded and installed for FREE. We will do most of our work in Python libraries such as Keras, Numpy, Tensorflow, and Matpotlib to make things super easy and focus on the high-level concepts. I am always available to answer your questions and help you along your data science journey.

This course focuses on "how to build and understand", not just "how to use". Anyone can learn to use an API in 15 minutes after reading some documentation. It's not about "remembering facts", it's about "seeing for yourself" via experimentation. It will teach you how to visualize what's happening in the model internally. If you want more than just a superficial look at machine learning models, this course is for you.

See you in class!


"If you can't implement it, you don't understand it"

  • Or as the great physicist Richard Feynman said: "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

  • My courses are the ONLY courses where you will learn how to implement machine learning algorithms from scratch

  • Other courses will teach you how to plug in your data into a library, but do you really need help with 3 lines of code?

  • After doing the same thing with 10 datasets, you realize you didn't learn 10 things. You learned 1 thing, and just repeated the same 3 lines of code 10 times...


Suggested Prerequisites:

  • Decent Python coding skills

  • Understand RNNs, CNNs, and word embeddings

  • Know how to build, train, and evaluate a neural network in Keras


WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR COURSES IN?:

  • Check out the lecture "Machine Learning and AI Prerequisite Roadmap" (available in the FAQ of any of my courses, including the free Numpy course)


UNIQUE FEATURES

  • Every line of code explained in detail - email me any time if you disagree

  • No wasted time "typing" on the keyboard like other courses - let's be honest, nobody can really write code worth learning about in just 20 minutes from scratch

  • Not afraid of university-level math - get important details about algorithms that other courses leave out

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Instructor Details

Lazy Programmer Inc.

The Lazy Programmer is a seasoned online educator with an unwavering passion for sharing knowledge. With over 10 years of experience, he has revolutionized the field of data science and machine learning by captivating audiences worldwide through his comprehensive courses and tutorials.


Equipped with a multidisciplinary background, the Lazy Programmer holds a remarkable duo of master's degrees. His first foray into academia led him to pursue computer engineering, with a specialized focus on machine learning and pattern recognition. Undeterred by boundaries, he then ventured into the realm of statistics, exploring its applications in financial engineering.


Recognized as a trailblazer in his field, the Lazy Programmer quickly embraced the power of deep learning when it was still in its infancy. As one of the pioneers, he fearlessly embarked on instructing one of the first-ever online courses on deep learning, catapulting him to the forefront of the industry.


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Reviews

4.6

7,747 ratings on Udemy

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By Sathish Kumar M on 2/23/2026

Awesome! Good content and well-structured presentation. I really enjoyed this course, learnt a lot, informative and fun approach to presenting the material. The instructor was extremely knowledgeable, making complex topics easy to understand through engaging, practical examples and also the trainer was incredibly supportive and responsive, provided clear, actionable advice. He delivered the training excellently and extremely valuable. Thank you so much to instructor.

By Prasun Sultania on 7/15/2025

I loved the details in which attention was explained before jumping into code. All the contents like seq2seq, bi-directional RNN has been greatly helpful in understanding the fundamentals. Now, that I have completed this (minus the memory network) I am stepping into transformers course from LazyProgrammer. His courses have been very helpful in understanding the deep learning fundamentals so far. There were some challenges in getting the code running, but, it was not that hard to figure out so, I won't dislike that.

By Alexi Georgiev Jordanov on 2/12/2024

Man, you lost me at some of the lectures... But you have done a tremendous job diving into the advanced subjects!! The topics are not easy to understand and follow. Comparing to many similar courses teaching only the basics, this professor took on the challenge to teach more advanced and difficult topics. And, frankly, he succeeded in many parts throughout the course yet there are still parts that the student will have to listen again and again, read the code, and still not be able to understand some of them. The professor is probably aware and may want to improve the content if the time was worth. Bearing this in mind, although being left a bit displeased with some of the course parts, I would have to recognize the professor's real efforts spent in teaching the course and assign him 4 out 5. Also, to stay completely objective I would have to rate other Udemy ML courses at 2, max 3 out of 5.

By Anonymized User on 11/4/2023

Very good. An advanced-level course for those who enjoy delving into code. The instructor has a strong didactic approach, providing a theoretical introduction and then explaining the code step by step. As he himself suggests, it is beneficial to start with the final sections, beginning with sections 10, 9, 8, and 7 (curiously, this order seems to work better) :)

By Arun Kumar on 9/5/2021

I feel as this is the advanced nlp course transformers and bert should also be there in the course.

By Frederick Zhang on 8/10/2021

This course builds on top of NLP with Deep Learning but is relatively much easier. Most of the code is implemented in Keras, so not everything needs building up from scratch. It is a great continuation course and light on the math, which you may like if you are not numerically-oriented. I was fairly disappointed that transformers were not covered, but hopefully new material is on the way.

By Patrick Yang on 6/29/2021

I am a beginner to NLP and deep learning and I am very satisfied with this course! Upon completing this course, I am more confident with my Python skills and applying them in practice for text classification, machine translation, and others. I would say no matter what you want to do with data science, deep learning, or NLP, this course would give you a good understanding and confidence!

By Rahul Mehta on 4/18/2021

I got vast knowledge on this topic and all my doubts were cleared. I am completely satisfied with this course. This is a great course if you want to get advanced with deep learning and NLP. Lazy programmer not only teaches how to do something but also the reason behind it which makes it different than any tutorial. Also I like the breakdown of the maths and schematics he gives before each programming lesson.

By Sandip Dhar on 9/10/2020

It was a quite advanced level course. Though I met the prerequisites, had a hard time to understand few things in my first attempt. Though I could understand them after listening to the videos repeatedly and also writing codes on my own. All the theories were covered and explained by the instructor very well but the coding demonstration part could have been better (detailed) for Attention and Memory Network. It took time for me to complete the course but I have learned a lot and also gained confidence. Overall, it was a very good course though quite complex and difficult.

By Nguyen Quang Tri on 12/5/2018

Thank you so much for very intuitive course! I think you should include Beam search and Speech recognition as a part of your course. I really want to build a speech recognition system but I can't find any course online. I found your course easier to understand than Andrew Ng's(especially in some complex topics like Attention) and it help me a lot when learning NLP. Best course I've taken!

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