EC ENGR C147A · EE C147ANeural Networks and Deep Learning
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered C147.) Review of machine learning concepts; maximum likelihood; supervised classification; neural network architectures; backpropagation; regularization for training neural networks; optimization for training neural networks; convolutional neural networks; practical CNN architectures; deep learning libraries in Python; recurrent neural networks, backpropagation through time, long short-term memory and gated recurrent units; variational autoencoders; generative adversarial networks; adversarial examples and training. Concurrently scheduled with course C247A.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisites: courses 131A, 133A or 205A, and M146, or equivalent.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EC ENGR C147A
- EC ENGR 131AProbability and Statistics
- EC ENGR 133AApplied Numerical Computing
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MECH&AE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- EC ENGR M146Introduction to Machine Learning
- C&EE 110Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COMPTNG 10CAdvanced Programming
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170AProbability Theory I
- MATH 131AAnalysis
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- EC ENGR 205AMatrix Analysis for Scientists and Engineers
4 direct requisites. Showing 36 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EC ENGR C147A
- EC ENGR C147BNeural Networks and Deep Learning II
- EC ENGR 201CArtificial Intelligence on Chip
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.