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About the Course

In previous courses of our online specialization you've learned the basic algorithms, and now you are ready to step into the area of more complex problems and algorithms to solve them. Advanced algorithms build upon basic ones and use new ideas. We will start with networks flows which are used in more typical applications such as optimal matchings, finding disjoint paths and flight scheduling as well as more surprising ones like image segmentation in computer vision. We then proceed to linear programming with applications in optimizing budget allocation, portfolio optimization, finding the cheapest diet satisfying all requirements and many others. Next we discuss inherently hard problems for which no exact good solutions are known (and not likely to be found) and how to solve them in practice. We finish with a soft introduction to streaming algorithms that are heavily used in Big Data processing. Such algorithms are usually designed to be able to process huge datasets without being able even to store a dataset....

Top reviews

FS

Oct 21, 2020

It's was great to learn advanced algorithms and complexity. Besides, I learn new topics that can help me further learning. All the problems and the lectures were very good.

GM

Jan 3, 2018

As usual, complex arguments explained in simple terms!

Some problems are really tough! (e.g. there's a problem from Google Code Jam).

Thank you for this course!

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By MANCHALA L

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Aug 20, 2020

Excellent.

By Muhammad A F B

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Dec 7, 2020

Thank You

By 121910310046 M N

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Oct 22, 2020

EXCELLENT

By Stefan B

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Mar 8, 2017

Nice one.

By Vinay R K

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Sep 17, 2020

superb

By Ritik r

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Mar 29, 2019

SUPER

By Liu Y

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Dec 17, 2017

Great

By Zahraa S

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Mar 24, 2021

cool

By Shekhar

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Sep 13, 2020

best

By RAHUL B

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Mar 14, 2019

GOOD

By Gokulnath G

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Mar 21, 2024

DFD

By Shreyas S

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Mar 27, 2019

aa

By Mark Z

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Jun 17, 2019

The course left a good overall impression: the contents of the course are excellent and assignments are relevant. I've only noticed 2 downsides: the videos of the first week were sometimes hard to follow and I had to spend some time googling (which I find strange) (however, the situation changes when a Russian guy appears in the third week: his explanations are very clear and precise) and some assignments, in my opinion, take way more time to complete than they should.

By João L

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Oct 21, 2018

Great course, thank you! My only remark is that it sometimes assumes that you have lots of prior knowledge on programming in my opinion. I'm a non-tech guy trying to increase my knowledge of the field, and I've had a very hard time trying to find additional resources to solve some of the problems and to grasp some of the content. If we could have a bit more color on some of the harder parts during the course it'd be great.

By Ashok S

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Nov 9, 2022

Courses materials are sufficient and Informative; however, it is really hard to concentrate on videos because of just theoretical parts only. Coding assignments are real world problems with fun and bit complicated. If the videos were more fun and imaginative, I would have completed all coding assignments(guilty).

By Kim H P

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Jan 2, 2018

Good assignments, however the lectures (especially linear programing) are too short. The lecturers explained the algorithm in a way that only experts in the subject could understand. I didn't understand the lectures at all until i studied from other sources. Not recommended for beginner.

By Aamir K

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Sep 25, 2019

A great course but really very tough. Every module of the course deserves to be a separate course in itself. One thing that bothered was that the assignments were very vaguely explained and needed lots of searching and self study. Anyways got it after many many months.

By Kehan B

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Nov 6, 2018

This module is by far the hardest in this specialization, but at the same time, it is rewarding. The only complaint I have is the Linear Programming part. I wish there was more explanation or some toy examples to go through the algorithm.

By Fabrice L

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Apr 4, 2018

A lot of material covered in this course. The assignments are more challenging than in the previous courses of the specialization.

It is overall a great final and a very complete specialization.

Thank for putting together all this work.

By Timothy M

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Jun 5, 2017

Learned a lot. great material. Tough homework

I appreciated that the grader demanded good implementations but I think it would have been good to have a little guidance as to how to get there.

By Teguh S

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Nov 28, 2016

The problems are really challenging, thank you! However, the instructor is not very active in the discussion forum, which is a pity when you really need help and get stucked in the problem set.

By Jason M

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Jul 26, 2019

Very Educational and Enlightening. The only criticism I have is that the starter files generally need more modification than indicated to create a successful program.

By Radim V

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May 7, 2018

The only thing I missed in this course (and specialization) was more visual, intuitive approach to explanation. Programming assignments are rewarding.

By Abdur R S

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Nov 3, 2020

after 2 week rest weeks are fun with Alexander S. Kulikov.

Daniel M kane, does not meet our need.

But overall this course has many thing to learn.

By Vasily V

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Apr 27, 2018

Excellent course. One star less just because there are not very clean test cases for one particular problem among programming assignments