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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

Summary


The attention mechanism is a smart option to help neural networks select the right information and focus to produce the correct output. It can be placed either directly on the inputs or the features (inputs processed by a few layers). Accuracies in the cases of translation, image annotation, and speech recognition, are increased, in particular when the dimension of the inputs is important.

Attention mechanism has led to new types of networks enhanced with external memory, working as an input/output, from which to read or to which to write. These networks have proved to be very powerful in question-answering challenges, into which most tasks in natural language processing can can be cast: tagging, classification, sequence-to-sequence, or question answering tasks.

In the next chapter, we'll see more advanced techniques and their application to the more general case of recurrent neural networks, to improve accuracy.