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Advanced Deep Learning with Keras

By : Rowel Atienza
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Advanced Deep Learning with Keras

By: Rowel Atienza

Overview of this book

Recent developments in deep learning, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are creating impressive AI results in our news headlines - such as AlphaGo Zero beating world chess champions, and generative AI that can create art paintings that sell for over $400k because they are so human-like. Advanced Deep Learning with Keras is a comprehensive guide to the advanced deep learning techniques available today, so you can create your own cutting-edge AI. Using Keras as an open-source deep learning library, you'll find hands-on projects throughout that show you how to create more effective AI with the latest techniques. The journey begins with an overview of MLPs, CNNs, and RNNs, which are the building blocks for the more advanced techniques in the book. You’ll learn how to implement deep learning models with Keras and TensorFlow 1.x, and move forwards to advanced techniques, as you explore deep neural network architectures, including ResNet and DenseNet, and how to create autoencoders. You then learn all about GANs, and how they can open new levels of AI performance. Next, you’ll get up to speed with how VAEs are implemented, and you’ll see how GANs and VAEs have the generative power to synthesize data that can be extremely convincing to humans - a major stride forward for modern AI. To complete this set of advanced techniques, you'll learn how to implement DRL such as Deep Q-Learning and Policy Gradient Methods, which are critical to many modern results in AI.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Building autoencoders using Keras


We're now going to move onto something really exciting, building an autoencoder using Keras library. For simplicity, we'll be using the MNIST dataset for the first set of examples. The autoencoder will then generate a latent vector from the input data and recover the input using the decoder. The latent vector in this first example is 16-dim.

Firstly, we're going to implement the autoencoder by building the encoder. Listing 3.2.1 shows the encoder that compresses the MNIST digit into a 16-dim latent vector. The encoder is a stack of two Conv2D. The final stage is a Dense layer with 16 units to generate the latent vector. Figure 3.2.1 shows the architecture model diagram generated by plot_model() which is the same as the text version produced by encoder.summary(). The shape of the output of the last Conv2D is saved to compute the dimensions of the decoder input layer for easy reconstruction of the MNIST image.

The following Listing 3.2.1, shows autoencoder-mnist...