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Advanced Deep Learning with Keras

By : Rowel Atienza
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Advanced Deep Learning with Keras

By: Rowel Atienza

Overview of this book

Recent developments in deep learning, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are creating impressive AI results in our news headlines - such as AlphaGo Zero beating world chess champions, and generative AI that can create art paintings that sell for over $400k because they are so human-like. Advanced Deep Learning with Keras is a comprehensive guide to the advanced deep learning techniques available today, so you can create your own cutting-edge AI. Using Keras as an open-source deep learning library, you'll find hands-on projects throughout that show you how to create more effective AI with the latest techniques. The journey begins with an overview of MLPs, CNNs, and RNNs, which are the building blocks for the more advanced techniques in the book. You’ll learn how to implement deep learning models with Keras and TensorFlow 1.x, and move forwards to advanced techniques, as you explore deep neural network architectures, including ResNet and DenseNet, and how to create autoencoders. You then learn all about GANs, and how they can open new levels of AI performance. Next, you’ll get up to speed with how VAEs are implemented, and you’ll see how GANs and VAEs have the generative power to synthesize data that can be extremely convincing to humans - a major stride forward for modern AI. To complete this set of advanced techniques, you'll learn how to implement DRL such as Deep Q-Learning and Policy Gradient Methods, which are critical to many modern results in AI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Advanced Deep Learning with Keras
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Deep residual networks (ResNet)


One key advantage of deep networks is that they have a great ability to learn different levels of representations from both inputs and feature maps. In both classification, segmentation, detection and a number of other computer vision problems, learning different levels of features generally leads to better performance.

However, you'll find that it's not easy to train deep networks as a result of the gradient vanishes (or explodes) with depth in the shallow layers during backpropagation. Figure 2.2.1 illustrates the problem of vanishing gradient. The network parameters are updated by backpropagation from the output layer to all previous layers. Since backpropagation is based on the chain rule, there is a tendency for gradients to diminish as they reach the shallow layers. This is due to the multiplication of small numbers, especially for the small absolute value of errors and parameters.

The number of multiplication operations will be proportional to the depth...