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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 8. Translating and Explaining with Encoding – decoding Networks

Encoding-decoding techniques occur when inputs and outputs belong to the same space. For example, image segmentation consists of transforming an input image into a new image, the segmentation mask; translation consists of transforming a character sequence into a new character sequence; and question-answering consists of replying to a sequence of words with a new sequence of words.

To address these challenges, encoding-decoding networks are networks composed of two symmetric parts: an encoding network and a decoding network. The encoder network encodes the input data into a vector, which will be used by the decoder network to produce an output, such as a translation, an answer to the input question, an explanation, or an annotation of an input sentence or an input image.

An encoder network is usually composed of the first layers of a network of the type of the ones presented in the previous chapters, without the last layers...