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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

What is deep learning?


In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoff Hinton published an article titled ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) (2012) and, at the end of their paper, they wrote:

"It is notable that our network's performance degrades if a single convolutional layer is removed. For example, removing any of the middle layers results in a loss of about 2% for the top-1 performance of the network. So the depth really is important for achieving our results."

In this milestone paper, they clearly mention the importance of the number of hidden layers present in deep networks. Krizheysky, Sutskever, and Hilton talk about convolutional layers, and we will not discuss them until Chapter 5, Image Recognition, but the basic question remains: What do those hidden layers do?

A typical English saying is a picture is worth a thousand words. Let's use this approach to understand what Deep Learning...