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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

Store and retrieve information in Neural Turing Machines


Attention mechanism can be used as an access to a part of memory in the memory-augmented networks.

The concept of memory in Neural Turing Machines has been inspired by both neuroscience and computer hardware.

RNN hidden states to store information is not capable of storing sufficiently large amounts of data and retrieving it, even when the RNN is augmented with a memory cell, such as in the case of LSTM.

To solve this problem, Neural Turing Machines (NTM) have been first designed with an external memory bank and read/write heads, whilst retaining the magic of being trained via gradient descent.

Reading the memory bank is given by an attention on the variable memory bank as the attention on inputs in the previous examples:

Which can be illustrated the following way:

While writing a value to the memory bank consists of assigning our new value to part of the memory, thanks to another attention mechanism:

describes the information to store,...