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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

Creating the sigmoid derivative function


The sigmoid function is a unique function where the value of the derivative of the sigmoid function includes the value of the sigmoid function.  You may be asking what's the big deal.  However, since the sigmoid function is already calculated it allows for simpler and more efficient processing when performing backpropagation over many layers.  Additionally, it is the derivative of the sigmoid function that is used in the calculation to derive the optimal w1, w2, and b values to derive the most accurate predicted output. 

Getting ready

A cursory understanding of derivatives from calculus will assist in understanding the sigmoid derivative function.

How to do it...

This section walks through the steps to create a sigmoid derivative function.

  1. Just like the sigmoid function, create the derivative of the sigmoid function can with Python using the following script:
def sigmoid_derivative(x):
    return sigmoid(x) * (1-sigmoid(x))
  1. Plot the derivative of the sigmoid...