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Python Deep Learning

By : Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
Book Image

Python Deep Learning

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

Overview of this book

With an increasing interest in AI around the world, deep learning has attracted a great deal of public attention. Every day, deep learning algorithms are used broadly across different industries. The book will give you all the practical information available on the subject, including the best practices, using real-world use cases. You will learn to recognize and extract information to increase predictive accuracy and optimize results. Starting with a quick recap of important machine learning concepts, the book will delve straight into deep learning principles using Sci-kit learn. Moving ahead, you will learn to use the latest open source libraries such as Theano, Keras, Google's TensorFlow, and H20. Use this guide to uncover the difficulties of pattern recognition, scaling data with greater accuracy and discussing deep learning algorithms and techniques. Whether you want to dive deeper into Deep Learning, or want to investigate how to get more out of this powerful technology, you’ll find everything inside.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Deep Learning
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have walked the reader toward an understanding of what deep learning is and how it is related to deep neural networks. We have also discussed how many different implementations of deep neural networks exist, besides the classical feed-forward implementation, and have discussed the recent successes deep learning has had on many standard classification tasks. This chapter has been rich with concepts and ideas, developed through examples and historical remarks from the Jacquard loom to the Ising model. This is just the beginning, and we will work out many examples in which the ideas introduced in this chapter will be explained and developed more precisely.

We are going to start this process in the coming chapter, where we will finally introduce the readers to many of the concepts we have touched on in this one, like RBMs and auto-encoders, and it will be clear how we can create more powerful deep neural networks than simple feed-forward DNNs. In addition, it will...