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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

Deep learning applications


In the next couple of paragraphs, we will discuss how deep neural networks have applications in the field of speech recognition and computer vision, and how their application in recent years has vastly improved accuracy in these two fields by completely outperforming many other machine learning algorithms not based on deep neural networks.

Speech recognition

Deep learning has started to be used in speech recognition starting in this decade (2010 and later, see for example the 2012 article titled Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition by Hinton et al., available online at http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/38131.pdf); until then, speech recognition methods were dominated by algorithms called GMM-HMM methods (Hidden Markov Models with Gaussian Mixture Emission). Understanding speech is a complex task, since speech is not, as is naively thought, made up of separate words with clear boundaries between...