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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Model building, training, and analysis


We will use a standard sequential model from the keras library to build the CNN. The network will consist of three convolutional layers, two maxpooling layers, and four fully connected layers. The input layer and the subsequent hidden layers have 16 neurons, while the maxpooling layers contain a pool size of (2,2). The four fully connected layers consist of two dense layers and one flattened layer and one dropout layer. Dropout 0.25 was used to reduce the overfitting problem. Another noveltyof this algorithm is the use of dataaugmentation to fight the overfitting phenomenon. Data augmentation is carried by rotating, shifting, shearing, and zooming the images to different extents to fit the model.

The relu function is used as the activation function in both the input and hidden layers, while the softmax classifier is used in the output layer to classify the test images based on the predicted output.

Getting ready

The network which will be constructed can...