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TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook

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TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook

Overview of this book

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a lot of success in the field of computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. This exciting recipe-based guide will take you from the realm of DNN theory to implementing them practically to solve real-life problems in the artificial intelligence domain. In this book, you will learn how to efficiently use TensorFlow, Google’s open source framework for deep learning. You will implement different deep learning networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Deep Q-learning Networks (DQNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), with easy-to-follow standalone recipes. You will learn how to use TensorFlow with Keras as the backend. You will learn how different DNNs perform on some popularly used datasets, such as MNIST, CIFAR-10, and Youtube8m. You will not only learn about the different mobile and embedded platforms supported by TensorFlow, but also how to set up cloud platforms for deep learning applications. You will also get a sneak peek at TPU architecture and how it will affect the future of DNNs. By using crisp, no-nonsense recipes, you will become an expert in implementing deep learning techniques in growing real-world applications and research areas such as reinforcement learning, GANs, and autoencoders.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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TensorFlow Processing Units

Learning to beat the previous MNIST state-of-the-art results with Capsule Networks

Capsule Networks (or CapsNets) is a very recent and innovative type of deep learning network. This technique was introduced at the end of October 2017 in a seminal paper titled Dynamic Routing Between Capsules by Sara Sabour, Nicholas Frost and Geoffrey Hinton (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829). Hinton is one of the fathers of Deep Learning and, therefore, the whole Deep Learning community is excited to see the progress made with capsules. Indeed, CapsNets are already beating the best CNN at MNIST classification which is... well, impressive!

So what is the problem with CNNs? In CNNs each layer understands an image at a progressive level of granularity. As we discussed in multiple recipes, the first layer will most likely recognize straight lines or simple curves and edges, while subsequent layers...