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Python Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Indra den Bakker
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Python Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Indra den Bakker

Overview of this book

Deep Learning is revolutionizing a wide range of industries. For many applications, deep learning has proven to outperform humans by making faster and more accurate predictions. This book provides a top-down and bottom-up approach to demonstrate deep learning solutions to real-world problems in different areas. These applications include Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Robotics. The Python Deep Learning Cookbook presents technical solutions to the issues presented, along with a detailed explanation of the solutions. Furthermore, a discussion on corresponding pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution using one of the popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras and CNTK is provided. The book includes recipes that are related to the basic concepts of neural networks. All techniques s, as well as classical networks topologies. The main purpose of this book is to provide Python programmers a detailed list of recipes to apply deep learning to common and not-so-common scenarios.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with batches and mini-batches


When training a neural network, we feed the data to our network. Each full scan of the training data is called an epoch. If we feed all of the data in one step, we call it batch mode (the batch size equals the size of the training set). However, in most cases, we divide the training data into smaller subsets while feeding the data to our model, just as in other machine learning algorithms. This is called mini-batch mode. Sometimes, we are forced to do this because the complete training set is too big and doesn't fit in the memory. If we look at the training time, we would say: the bigger the batch size, the better (as long as the batch fits in the memory). However, using mini-batches also has other advantages. Firstly, it reduces the complexity of the training process. Secondly, it reduces the effect of noise on the model by summing or averaging the gradient (reducing the variance). In mini-batch mode, the optimizer uses a balance of efficiency and...