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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 3. Encoding Word into Vector

In the previous chapter, inputs to neural nets were images, that is, vectors of continuous numeric values, the natural language for neural nets. But for many other machine learning fields, inputs may be categorical and discrete.

In this chapter, we'll present a technique known as embedding, which learns to transform discrete input signals into vectors. Such a representation of inputs is an important first step for compatibility with the rest of neural net processing.

Such embedding techniques will be illustrated with an example of natural language texts, which are composed of words belonging to a finite vocabulary.

We will present the different aspects of embedding:

  • The principles of embedding

  • The different types of word embedding

  • One hot encoding versus index encoding

  • Building a network to translate text into vectors

  • Training and discovering the properties of embedding spaces

  • Saving and loading the parameters of a model

  • Dimensionality reduction for visualization...