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Java Deep Learning Essentials

By : Yusuke Sugomori
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Java Deep Learning Essentials

By: Yusuke Sugomori

Overview of this book

AI and Deep Learning are transforming the way we understand software, making computers more intelligent than we could even imagine just a decade ago. Deep Learning algorithms are being used across a broad range of industries – as the fundamental driver of AI, being able to tackle Deep Learning is going to a vital and valuable skill not only within the tech world but also for the wider global economy that depends upon knowledge and insight for growth and success. It’s something that’s moving beyond the realm of data science – if you’re a Java developer, this book gives you a great opportunity to expand your skillset. Starting with an introduction to basic machine learning algorithms, to give you a solid foundation, Deep Learning with Java takes you further into this vital world of stunning predictive insights and remarkable machine intelligence. Once you’ve got to grips with the fundamental mathematical principles, you’ll start exploring neural networks and identify how to tackle challenges in large networks using advanced algorithms. You will learn how to use the DL4J library and apply Deep Learning to a range of real-world use cases. Featuring further guidance and insights to help you solve challenging problems in image processing, speech recognition, language modeling, this book will make you rethink what you can do with Java, showing you how to use it for truly cutting-edge predictive insights. As a bonus, you’ll also be able to get to grips with Theano and Caffe, two of the most important tools in Deep Learning today. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to tackle Deep Learning with Java. Wherever you’ve come from – whether you’re a data scientist or Java developer – you will become a part of the Deep Learning revolution!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Java Deep Learning Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Other Important Deep Learning Libraries
Index

Implementations with DL4J


ND4J is the library that helps you to implement deep learning easily and conveniently. However, you have to implement the algorithms yourself, which is not too different from its implementation in the previous chapters. In other words, ND4J is just a library that makes calculating numerical values easier and is not a library that is optimized for deep learning algorithms. One library that makes deep learning easier to handle is DL4J. Fortunately, as for DL4J, some example code with typical methods is published on GitHub (https://github.com/deeplearning4j/dl4j-0.4-examples). These examples are used on the premise that you are using DL4J's version 0.4-*. When you actually clone this repository, please check the latest version again. In this section, we'll extract the fundamental part from these sample programs and take a look at it. We'll reference the forked repository on https://github.com/yusugomori/dl4j-0.4-examples as a screenshot in this section.

Setup

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