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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By : Willem Meints
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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By: Willem Meints

Overview of this book

Cognitive Toolkit is a very popular and recently open sourced deep learning toolkit by Microsoft. Cognitive Toolkit is used to train fast and effective deep learning models. This book will be a quick introduction to using Cognitive Toolkit and will teach you how to train and validate different types of neural networks, such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks. This book will help you understand the basics of deep learning. You will learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit to build deep learning models and discover what makes this framework unique so that you know when to use it. This book will be a quick, no-nonsense introduction to the library and will teach you how to train different types of neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, autoencoders, and more, using Cognitive Toolkit. Then we will look at two scenarios in which deep learning can be used to enhance human capabilities. The book will also demonstrate how to evaluate your models' performance to ensure it trains and runs smoothly and gives you the most accurate results. Finally, you will get a short overview of how Cognitive Toolkit fits in to a DevOps environment
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Using Azure Machine Learning service to manage models

While you can completely hand-build a continuous integration pipeline, it's still quite a bit of work. You need to get dedicated hardware to run deep learning training jobs, and that can bring up the costs. There are great alternatives available in the cloud. Google has a TensorFlow serving offer. Microsoft offers Azure Machine Learning service as a way to manage models. Both are great tools that we can highly recommend.

Let's take a look at Azure Machine Learning service to get a sense of what it can do for you when you want to set up a complete machine learning pipeline:

Azure Machine Learning service is a cloud service that offers a complete solution for every phase of your machine learning project. It has the concept of experiments, and runs that allow you to manage experiments. It features a model registry that...