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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


Over the last couple of years, image recognition software has become increasingly in demand. It is not a coincidence that this demand has coincided with the advancements of big data storage. Google Photos, Facebook, and Apple all utilize image classification software to tag photos for their users. Much of the image recognition software used by these companies are powered by deep learning models built on top of popular libraries such as TensorFlow. This chapter extends the technique of deep learning by leveraging the training of one set of images to the learning or recognition of another set of images. This concept is referred to as transfer learning. In this chapter, we will focus on leveraging transfer learning to recognize the top two football players in the world:

  1. Lionel Messi
  2. Cristiano Ronaldo

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