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Python Deep Learning - Second Edition

By : Ivan Vasilev, Daniel Slater, Gianmario Spacagna, Peter Roelants, Valentino Zocca
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Python Deep Learning - Second Edition

By: Ivan Vasilev, Daniel Slater, Gianmario Spacagna, Peter Roelants, Valentino Zocca

Overview of this book

With the surge in artificial intelligence in applications catering to both business and consumer needs, deep learning is more important than ever for meeting current and future market demands. With this book, you’ll explore deep learning, and learn how to put machine learning to use in your projects. This second edition of Python Deep Learning will get you up to speed with deep learning, deep neural networks, and how to train them with high-performance algorithms and popular Python frameworks. You’ll uncover different neural network architectures, such as convolutional networks, recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and capsule networks. You’ll also learn how to solve problems in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and speech recognition. You'll study generative model approaches such as variational autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate images. As you delve into newly evolved areas of reinforcement learning, you’ll gain an understanding of state-of-the-art algorithms that are the main components behind popular games Go, Atari, and Dota. By the end of the book, you will be well-versed with the theory of deep learning along with its real-world applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we explained what deep learning is and how it's related to deep neural networks. We discussed the different types of networks and how to train them. We also mentioned many real-world applications of deep learning and tried to analyze the reasons for its efficiency. Finally, we introduced three of the most popular deep learning libraries, namely, TensorFlow, Keras and PyTorch. We also implemented a couple of examples with Keras, but we hit a low accuracy ceiling when we tried to classify the CIFAR-10 dataset.

In the next chapter, we'll discuss how to improve these results with the help of convolutional networks – one of the most popular and effective deep network models. We'll talk about their structure, building blocks, and what makes them uniquely suited to computer vision tasks. To spark your interest, let's recall that convolutional...