Book Image

Deep Learning By Example

Book Image

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)
16
Implementing Fish Recognition

Compressing the MNIST dataset

In this part, we'll build a simple autoencoder that can be used to compress the MNIST dataset. So we will feed the images of this dataset to the encoder part, which will try to learn a lower compressed representation for them; then we will try to construct the input images again in the decoder part.

The MNIST dataset

We will start the implementation by getting the MNIST dataset, using the helper functions of TensorFlow.

Let's import the necessary packages for this implementation:

%matplotlib inline

import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist_dataset = input_data.read_data_sets('MNIST_data...