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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

Chapter 4. Unsupervised Feature Learning

One of the reasons why deep neural networks can succeed where other traditional machine learning techniques struggle is the capability of learning the right representations of entities in the data (features) without needing (much) human and domain knowledge.

Theoretically, neural networks are able to consume raw data directly as it is and map the input layers to the desired output via the hidden intermediate representations. Traditional machine learning techniques focus mainly on the final mapping and assume the task of "feature engineering" to have already been done.

Feature engineering is the process that uses the available domain knowledge to create smart representations of the data, so that it can be processed by the machine learning algorithm.

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a professor at Stanford University and one of the most renowned researchers in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In his publications and talks, he describes the...