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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

Computational graphs

The biggest idea of all of the big ideas about TensorFlow is that the numeric computations are expressed as a computation graph, as shown in the following figure. So, the backbone of any TensorFlow program is going to be a computational graph, where the following is true:

  • Graph nodes are operations which have any number of inputs and outputs
  • Graph edges between our nodes are going to be tensors that flow between these operations, and the best way of thinking about what tensors are in practice is as n-dimensional arrays

The advantage of using such flow graphs as the backbone of your deep learning framework is that it allows you to build complex models in terms of small and simple operations. Also, this is going to make the gradient calculations extremely simple when we address that in a later section:

Another way of thinking about a TensorFlow graph is...