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Applied Deep Learning with Keras

By : Ritesh Bhagwat, Mahla Abdolahnejad, Matthew Moocarme
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Applied Deep Learning with Keras

By: Ritesh Bhagwat, Mahla Abdolahnejad, Matthew Moocarme

Overview of this book

Though designing neural networks is a sought-after skill, it is not easy to master. With Keras, you can apply complex machine learning algorithms with minimum code. Applied Deep Learning with Keras starts by taking you through the basics of machine learning and Python all the way to gaining an in-depth understanding of applying Keras to develop efficient deep learning solutions. To help you grasp the difference between machine and deep learning, the book guides you on how to build a logistic regression model, first with scikit-learn and then with Keras. You will delve into Keras and its many models by creating prediction models for various real-world scenarios, such as disease prediction and customer churning. You’ll gain knowledge on how to evaluate, optimize, and improve your models to achieve maximum information. Next, you’ll learn to evaluate your model by cross-validating it using Keras Wrapper and scikit-learn. Following this, you’ll proceed to understand how to apply L1, L2, and dropout regularization techniques to improve the accuracy of your model. To help maintain accuracy, you’ll get to grips with applying techniques including null accuracy, precision, and AUC-ROC score techniques for fine tuning your model. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to use Keras when building high-level deep neural networks.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Applied Deep Learning with Keras
Preface
Preface

Machine Learning Libraries


While this book is an introduction to deep learning with Keras, as mentioned earlier, we will start by utilizing scikit-learn. This will help us establish the fundamentals of building a machine learning model using the Python programming language.

Similar to scikit-learn, Keras makes it easy to create models in the Python programming language through an easy-to-use API. However, the goal of Keras is for the creation and training of neural networks, rather than machine learning models in general. ANNs represent a large class of machine learning algorithms, and they are so called because their architecture resembles the neurons in the human brain. The Keras library has many general-purpose functions built in, such as optimizers, activation functions, and layer properties, so that users, like in scikit-learn, do not have to code these algorithms from scratch.