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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

Capacity of a single neuron

A neural network is a computational model that is mainly inspired by the way the biological neural networks of the human brain process the incoming information. Neural networks made a huge breakthrough in machine learning research (deep learning, specifically) and industrial applications, such as breakthrough results in computer vision, speech recognition, and text processing. In this chapter, we will try to develop an understanding of a particular type of neural network called the multi-layer Perceptron.

Biological motivation and connections

The basic computational unit of our brains is called a neuron, and we have approximately 86 billion neurons in our nervous system, which are connected with...