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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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Preface

Learning rates and learning rate schedulers


It helps to avoid local when using smaller rates. However, it often takes longer to converge. What can help shorten the training time is using a warm-up period. In this period, we can use a bigger learning rate for the first few epochs. After a certain number of epochs, we can decrease the learning rate. It's even possible to decrease the learning rate after each step, but this is not recommended, because you might be better off using a different optimizer instead (for example, if you want to use decay, you can specify this in as a hyperparameter). In theory, when the learning rate is too big during the warm-up period, it can be the case that you won't be able to reach the global optima at all.

In the following recipe, we demonstrate how to set a custom rate scheduler with Keras.

How to do it...

  1. Let's start with importing all the libraries, as follows:
import math

from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, Activation...