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Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

By : Matt Cole
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Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

By: Matt Cole

Overview of this book

Neural networks have made a surprise comeback in the last few years and have brought tremendous innovation in the world of artificial intelligence. The goal of this book is to provide C# programmers with practical guidance in solving complex computational challenges using neural networks and C# libraries such as CNTK, and TensorFlowSharp. This book will take you on a step-by-step practical journey, covering everything from the mathematical and theoretical aspects of neural networks, to building your own deep neural networks into your applications with the C# and .NET frameworks. This book begins by giving you a quick refresher of neural networks. You will learn how to build a neural network from scratch using packages such as Encog, Aforge, and Accord. You will learn about various concepts and techniques, such as deep networks, perceptrons, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, and autoencoders. You will learn ways to add intelligent features to your .NET apps, such as facial and motion detection, object detection and labeling, language understanding, knowledge, and intelligent search. Throughout this book, you will be working on interesting demonstrations that will make it easier to implement complex neural networks in your enterprise applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Activation Function Timings

Optimization methods

This section will give you a brief description of the optimization methods that are supplied with SwarmOps and some recommendations for their use.

Choosing an optimizer

When faced with a new optimization problem, the first optimizer you may want to try is the PS method, which is often sufficient and has the advantage of converging (or stagnating) very quickly. In addition, PS does not have any behavioral parameters that need tuning, so it either works or it doesn't. If the PS method fails at optimizing your problem, you may want to try the LUS method. You may need to run both PS and LUS several times as they may converge to sub-optimal solutions. If PS and LUS both fail, you may try the DE, MOL, or...