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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the most important tools that machine learning practitioners use in order to make sense of their data and get the learning algorithm to get the most out of their data.

Feature engineering was the first and commonly used tool in data science; it's a must-have component in any data science pipeline. The purpose of this tool is to make better representations for your data and increase the predictive power of your model.

We saw how a large number of features can be problematic and lead to worse classifier performance. We also saw that there is an optimal number of features that should be used to get the maximum model performance, and this optimal number of features is a function of the number of data samples/observations you got.

Subsequently, we introduced one of the most powerful tools, which is bias-variance decomposition. This tool is widely...