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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

By : Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
Book Image

Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

By: Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Overview of this book

Reinforcement learning is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields in machine learning. This is due to the many novel algorithms developed and incredible results published in recent years. In this book, you will learn about the core concepts of RL including Q-learning, policy gradients, Monte Carlo processes, and several deep reinforcement learning algorithms. As you make your way through the book, you'll work on projects with datasets of various modalities including image, text, and video. You will gain experience in several domains, including gaming, image processing, and physical simulations. You'll explore technologies such as TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym to implement deep learning reinforcement learning algorithms that also predict stock prices, generate natural language, and even build other neural networks. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience with eight reinforcement learning projects, each addressing different topics and/or algorithms. We hope these practical exercises will provide you with better intuition and insight about the field of reinforcement learning and how to apply its algorithms to various problems in real life.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Generating a Deep Learning Image Classifier

Over the past decade, deep learning has made a name for itself by producing state-of-the-heart results across computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and many more such applications. Some of the models that human researchers have designed and engineered have also gained popularity, including AlexNet, Inception, VGGNet, ResNet, and DenseNet; some of them are now the go-to standard for their respective tasks. However, it seems that the better the model gets, the more complex the architecture becomes, especially with the introduction of residual connections between convolutional layers. The task of designing a high-performance neural network has thus become a very arduous one. Hence the question arises: is it possible for an algorithm to learn how to generate neural network architectures?

As the title of this chapter suggests, it is indeed possible to train a neural network to generate neural networks that perform...