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Deep Learning Quick Reference

By : Mike Bernico
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Deep Learning Quick Reference

By: Mike Bernico

Overview of this book

Deep learning has become an essential necessity to enter the world of artificial intelligence. With this book deep learning techniques will become more accessible, practical, and relevant to practicing data scientists. It moves deep learning from academia to the real world through practical examples. You will learn how Tensor Board is used to monitor the training of deep neural networks and solve binary classification problems using deep learning. Readers will then learn to optimize hyperparameters in their deep learning models. The book then takes the readers through the practical implementation of training CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's with word embeddings and seq2seq models from scratch. Later the book explores advanced topics such as Deep Q Network to solve an autonomous agent problem and how to use two adversarial networks to generate artificial images that appear real. For implementation purposes, we look at popular Python-based deep learning frameworks such as Keras and Tensorflow, Each chapter provides best practices and safe choices to help readers make the right decision while training deep neural networks. By the end of this book, you will be able to solve real-world problems quickly with deep neural networks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Reinforcement learning overview

Reinforcement learning is based on the concept of an intelligent agent. An agent interacts with it's environment by observing some state and then taking an action. As the agent takes actions to move between states, it receives feedback about the goodness of its actions in the form of a reward signal. This reward signal is the reinforcement in reinforcement learning. It's a feedback loop that the agent can use to learn the goodness of it's choice. Of course, rewards can be both positive and negative (punishments).

Imagine a self-driving car as the agent we are building. As it's driving down the road, it's receiving a constant stream of reward signals for it's actions. Staying within the lanes would likely lead to a positive reward while running over pedestrians would likely result in a very negative reward for the agent...