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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)

Getting Started with Neural Networks

In this chapter, we will be focusing on the basics of neural networks, including input/output layers, hidden layers, and how the networks learn through forward and backpropagation. We will start with the standard multilayer perceptron networks, talk about their building blocks, and illustrate how they learn step-by-step. We will also introduce a few, popular standard models such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM), and recurrent neural network (RNN) as well as its variation Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). We will outline the key, critical components for the successful application of the models, and explain some important concepts to help you gain a better understanding of why these networks work so well in certain areas. In addition to a theoretical introduction, we will also show example code snippets...