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Deep Learning Essentials

By : Wei Di, Jianing Wei, Anurag Bhardwaj
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Book Image

Deep Learning Essentials

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By: Wei Di, Jianing Wei, Anurag Bhardwaj

Overview of this book

Deep Learning a trending topic in the field of Artificial Intelligence today and can be considered to be an advanced form of machine learning. This book will help you take your first steps in training efficient deep learning models and applying them in various practical scenarios. You will model, train, and deploy different kinds of neural networks such as CNN, RNN, and will see some of their applications in real-world domains including computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and so on. You will build practical projects such as chatbots, implement reinforcement learning to build smart games, and develop expert systems for image captioning and processing using Python library such as TensorFlow. This book also covers solutions for different problems you might come across while training models, such as noisy datasets, and small datasets. By the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of the basics of deep learning and neural network modeling, along with their practical applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Setting up deep learning on AWS

In this section, we will show two different ways of setting up a deep learning system using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Setup from scratch

In this section, we will illustrate how to set up a deep learning environment on an AWS EC2 GPU instance g2.2xlarge running Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. For this example, we will use a pre-baked Amazon Machine Image (AMI) which already has a number of software packages installed—making it easier to set up an end-end deep learning system. We will use a publicly available AMI Image ami-b03ffedf, which has following pre-installed packages:

  • CUDA 8.0
  • Anaconda 4.20 with Python 3.0
  • Keras / Theano
  1. The first step to setting up the system is to set up an AWS account...