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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

Feature Engineering and Model Complexity – The Titanic Example Revisited

Model complexity and assessment is a must-do step toward building a successful data science system. There are lots of tools that you can use to assess and choose your model. In this chapter, we are going to address some of the tools that can help you to increase the value of your data by adding more descriptive features and extracting meaningful information from existing ones. We are also going to address other tools related optimal number features and learn why it's a problem to have a large number of features and fewer training samples/observations.

The following are the topics that will be explained in this chapter:

  • Feature engineering
  • The curse of dimensionality
  • Titanic example revisited—all together
  • Bias-variance decomposition
  • Learning visibility
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