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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 Bharti S

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Nov 29, 2019

Thank you so much. You are doing such a great work but i appreciate if you explain week-2 (linear programming) in detail. Thank you.

By Rihaan S

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Apr 7, 2019

Very informative course with challenging assignments. It will surely make your data structure concepts clearer.

By ANAY M B 1

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Apr 11, 2022

Good and effective which helped me stronger the knowledge about various algorithms and it's complexity

By Shreyansh G

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May 1, 2020

Great course! , learned a lot of new algorithms.

although week 2 could have been better.

By Lee B U

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May 15, 2020

It was good but it should supplement the contents of Linear programming.

By SHAYON G

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Jun 3, 2020

very crisp and concise! would definitely recommend

By Julio C D M

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Sep 26, 2023

A lot of concepts to review.

By D V S S R

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Mar 16, 2019

nice and some difficult

By DHASADE A B

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Jun 20, 2017

Good course!

By SWETHAA R 1

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Jun 8, 2020

Really Nice

By Yuzhe T

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Sep 21, 2016

有点难。

By Alexander M

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Jun 29, 2017

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By Niraj S

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Jan 11, 2017

While I like the content of the course but I felt too much of topics were crammed into one single course. I had to struggle a lot to grasp the concepts on advanced algorithms by just relying on video lectures so I had to look around in the internet for additional resources. Nonetheless it was a satisfying experience though it took me a lot of time and effort to complete the assignments.

By John B

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May 7, 2018

A lot of really useful algorithms are covered in this course, however some of the presentation is annoyingly sparse on details (particularly in the section on network flows).

By Juho V

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Sep 13, 2018

Lectures are mostly good. Assignments not. They are often very difficult in an uninteresting way such as unintuitive input formats and / or template code.

By Daniel P

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Mar 31, 2018

Too much emphasis on implementation details (99%), so one doesn't get a great intuitive understanding of the logic of algorithms.

By HussamAldeen S

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Aug 27, 2019

Course content is very good, however the lectures are hard to follow because the examples are always at the end.

By Saurab D

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Oct 15, 2018

The lectures are very abstract so, I had some difficulty in solving the assignment problems.

By Cheung W C

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Jun 29, 2021

Needs to redo week2. Insufficient guideline on 2phase simplex method.

By Ahmed A

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Aug 15, 2017

Some of the material was not sufficiently covered or explained

By Valeriano T

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Oct 7, 2017

Too much material for the time given :(

By JICHEN W

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Jan 28, 2018

very challenging

By Nischitha A

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Nov 15, 2022

good

By Jose P E

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Nov 2, 2017

I'd give it more stars, but, sadly, when I started the specialization, the professors were very responsive and active in the forums, giving help and guidance.

However, more than a year after the specialization started, (this is the fifth course), the professors were totally absent, precisely when I needed their help!

I hope they'll be back or assign someone else to answer the questions of the students in the forums.

By Dmitri M

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May 9, 2017

I have finished the specialization. The first 4 parts were more or less useful. Unfortunately, Advanced Algorithms and Complexity is a poorly implemented course. Some interesting assignments but lectures are pedagogically lacking (e.g., the Simplex Method isn't covered at all).