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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 6. Recurrent Neural Networks and Language Models

The neural network architectures we discussed in the previous chapters take in fixed sized input and provide fixed sized output. Even the convolutional networks used in image recognition (Chapter 5, Image Recognition) are flattened into a fixed output vector. This chapter will lift us from this constraint by introducing Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). RNNs help us deal with sequences of variable length by defining a recurrence relation over these sequences, hence the name.

The ability to process arbitrary sequences of input makes RNNs applicable for tasks such as language modeling (see section on Language Modelling) or speech recognition (see section on Speech Recognition). In fact, in theory, RNNs can be applied to any problem since it has been proven that they are Turing-Complete [1]. This means that theoretically, they can simulate any program that a regular computer would not be able to compute. As an example of this, Google DeepMind...