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Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
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Deep Learning with Theano

By: Christopher Bourez

Overview of this book

This book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU. The book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy. The book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym. At the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Deep Learning with Theano
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Classifying Handwritten Digits with a Feedforward Network

The first chapter presented Theano as a compute engine, with its different functions and specificities. With this knowledge, we'll go through an example and introduce some of the main concepts of deep learning, building three neural networks and training them on the problem of handwritten digit classification.

Deep learning is a field of machine learning in which layers of modules are stacked on top of each of other: this chapter introduces a simple single-linear-layer model, then adds a second layer on top of it to create a multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and last uses multiple convolutional layers to create a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

In the meantime, this chapter recaps the basic machine learning concepts, such as overfitting, validation, and loss analysis, for those who are not familiar with data science:

  • Small image classification

  • Handwritten digit recognition challenge

  • Layer design to build a neural network

  • Design...