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Deep Learning By Example

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Deep Learning By Example

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a popular subset of machine learning, and it allows you to build complex models that are faster and give more accurate predictions. This book is your companion to take your first steps into the world of deep learning, with hands-on examples to boost your understanding of the topic. This book starts with a quick overview of the essential concepts of data science and machine learning which are required to get started with deep learning. It introduces you to Tensorflow, the most widely used machine learning library for training deep learning models. You will then work on your first deep learning problem by training a deep feed-forward neural network for digit classification, and move on to tackle other real-world problems in computer vision, language processing, sentiment analysis, and more. Advanced deep learning models such as generative adversarial networks and their applications are also covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of all the essential concepts in deep learning. With the help of the examples and code provided in this book, you will be equipped to train your own deep learning models with more confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Implementing Fish Recognition

Introduction to autoencoders

An autoencoder is yet another deep learning architecture that can be used for many interesting tasks, but it can also be considered as a variation of the vanilla feed-forward neural network, where the output has the same dimensions as the input. As shown in Figure 1, the way autoencoders work is by feeding data samples (x1,...,x6) to the network. It will try to learn a lower representation of this data in layer L2, which you might call a way of encoding your dataset in a lower representation. Then, the second part of the network, which you might call a decoder, is responsible for constructing an output from this representation . You can think of the intermediate lower representation that the network learns from the input data as a compressed version of it.

Not very different from all the other deep learning architectures that we have seen so far, autoencoders...