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Learning Bayesian Models with R

By : Hari Manassery Koduvely
Book Image

Learning Bayesian Models with R

By: Hari Manassery Koduvely

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Bayesian Models with R
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deep belief networks and deep learning


Some of the pioneering advancements in neural networks research in the last decade have opened up a new frontier in machine learning that is generally called by the name deep learning (references 5 and 7 in the References section of this chapter). The general definition of deep learning is, a class of machine learning techniques, where many layers of information processing stages in hierarchical supervised architectures are exploited for unsupervised feature learning and for pattern analysis/classification. The essence of deep learning is to compute hierarchical features or representations of the observational data, where the higher-level features or factors are defined from lower-level ones (reference 8 in the References section of this chapter). Although there are many similar definitions and architectures for deep learning, two common elements in all of them are: multiple layers of nonlinear information processing and supervised or unsupervised learning...