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Deep Learning with PyTorch

By : Vishnu Subramanian
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Deep Learning with PyTorch

By: Vishnu Subramanian

Overview of this book

Deep learning powers the most intelligent systems in the world, such as Google Voice, Siri, and Alexa. Advancements in powerful hardware, such as GPUs, software frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, and CNTK along with the availability of big data have made it easier to implement solutions to problems in the areas of text, vision, and advanced analytics. This book will get you up and running with one of the most cutting-edge deep learning libraries—PyTorch. PyTorch is grabbing the attention of deep learning researchers and data science professionals due to its accessibility, efficiency and being more native to Python way of development. You'll start off by installing PyTorch, then quickly move on to learn various fundamental blocks that power modern deep learning. You will also learn how to use CNN, RNN, LSTM and other networks to solve real-world problems. This book explains the concepts of various state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet, Inception, and Seq2Seq, without diving deep into the math behind them. You will also learn about GPU computing during the course of the book. You will see how to train a model with PyTorch and dive into complex neural networks such as generative networks for producing text and images. By the end of the book, you'll be able to implement deep learning applications in PyTorch with ease.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Generative adversarial networks

GANs have become very popular in the last few years. Every week there are some advancements being made in the area of GANs. It has become one of the important subfields of deep learning, with a very active research community. GAN was introduced by Ian Goodfellow in 2014. The GAN addresses the problem of unsupervised learning by training two deep neural networks, called generator and discriminator, which compete with each other. In the course of training, both eventually become better at the tasks that they perform.

GANs are intuitively understood using the case of counterfeiter (generator) and the police (discriminator). Initially, the counterfeiter shows the police fake money. The police identifies it as fake and explains to the counterfeiter why it is fake. The counterfeiter makes new fake money based on the feedback it received. The police finds...