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Python Deep Learning

By : Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
Book Image

Python Deep Learning

By: Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants

Overview of this book

With an increasing interest in AI around the world, deep learning has attracted a great deal of public attention. Every day, deep learning algorithms are used broadly across different industries. The book will give you all the practical information available on the subject, including the best practices, using real-world use cases. You will learn to recognize and extract information to increase predictive accuracy and optimize results. Starting with a quick recap of important machine learning concepts, the book will delve straight into deep learning principles using Sci-kit learn. Moving ahead, you will learn to use the latest open source libraries such as Theano, Keras, Google's TensorFlow, and H20. Use this guide to uncover the difficulties of pattern recognition, scaling data with greater accuracy and discussing deep learning algorithms and techniques. Whether you want to dive deeper into Deep Learning, or want to investigate how to get more out of this powerful technology, you’ll find everything inside.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Deep Learning
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Why neural networks?


Neural networks have been around for many years, and they have gone through several periods during which they have fallen in and out of favor. However, in recent years, they have steadily gained ground over many other competing machine learning algorithms. The reason for this is that advanced neural net architecture has shown accuracy in many tasks that has far surpassed that of other algorithms. For example, in the field of image recognition, accuracy may be measured against a database of 16 million images named ImageNet.

Prior to the introduction of deep neural nets, accuracy had been improving at a slow rate, but after the introduction of deep neural networks, accuracy dropped from an error rate of 40% in 2010 to less than 7% in 2014, and this value is still falling. The human recognition rate is still lower, but only at about 5%. Given the success of deep neural networks, all entrants to the ImageNet competition in 2013 used some form of deep neural network. In addition...