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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By : Willem Meints
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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By: Willem Meints

Overview of this book

Cognitive Toolkit is a very popular and recently open sourced deep learning toolkit by Microsoft. Cognitive Toolkit is used to train fast and effective deep learning models. This book will be a quick introduction to using Cognitive Toolkit and will teach you how to train and validate different types of neural networks, such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks. This book will help you understand the basics of deep learning. You will learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit to build deep learning models and discover what makes this framework unique so that you know when to use it. This book will be a quick, no-nonsense introduction to the library and will teach you how to train different types of neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, autoencoders, and more, using Cognitive Toolkit. Then we will look at two scenarios in which deep learning can be used to enhance human capabilities. The book will also demonstrate how to evaluate your models' performance to ensure it trains and runs smoothly and gives you the most accurate results. Finally, you will get a short overview of how Cognitive Toolkit fits in to a DevOps environment
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to validate different types of deep learning models and how you can use metrics in CNTK to implement validation logic for your models. We also explored how to use TensorBoard to visualize training progress and the structure of the model so you can easily debug your models.

Monitoring and validating your model early and often will ensure that you end up with neural networks that work very well on production and do what your client expects them to. It is the only way to detect underfitting and overfitting of your model.

Now that you know how to build and validate basic neural networks, we'll dive into more interesting deep learning scenarios. In the next chapter, we will explore how you can use images with neural networks to perform image detection, and in Chapter 6, Working with Time Series Data, we will take a look at how to build...