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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

Introduction


Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been enjoying a bit of resurgence in the last couple of years. They have shown great success when it comes to image recognition. This is quite relevant these days with the advent of modern smartphones as anyone now has the ability to take large volumes of pictures of objects and post them on social media sites. Just due to this phenomenon, convolutional neural networks are in high demand these days.

There are several features that make a CNN optimally perform. They require the following features:

  • A high volume of training data
  • Visual and spatial data
  • An emphasis on filtering (pooling), activation, and convoluting as opposed to a fully connected layer that is more apparent in a traditional neural network

While CNNs have gained great popularity, there are some limitations in working with them primarily due to their computational needs as well as the volume of training data required to get a well-performing model. We will focus on techniques...