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Deep Learning Quick Reference

By : Mike Bernico
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Deep Learning Quick Reference

By: Mike Bernico

Overview of this book

Deep learning has become an essential necessity to enter the world of artificial intelligence. With this book deep learning techniques will become more accessible, practical, and relevant to practicing data scientists. It moves deep learning from academia to the real world through practical examples. You will learn how Tensor Board is used to monitor the training of deep neural networks and solve binary classification problems using deep learning. Readers will then learn to optimize hyperparameters in their deep learning models. The book then takes the readers through the practical implementation of training CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's with word embeddings and seq2seq models from scratch. Later the book explores advanced topics such as Deep Q Network to solve an autonomous agent problem and how to use two adversarial networks to generate artificial images that appear real. For implementation purposes, we look at popular Python-based deep learning frameworks such as Keras and Tensorflow, Each chapter provides best practices and safe choices to help readers make the right decision while training deep neural networks. By the end of this book, you will be able to solve real-world problems quickly with deep neural networks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Introducing recurrent neural networks

In case the definition is unclear, let's look at an example: a stock market ticker where we might observe the price of a stock changing over time, such as Alphabet Inc. in the following screenshot, which is an example of time series:

In the next chapter, we will talk about using recurrent neural networks to model language, which is another type of sequence, a sequence of words. Since you're reading this book, you undoubtedly have some intuition on language sequences already.

If you're new to time series, you might be wondering if it would be possible to use a normal multilayer perceptron to solve a time series problem. You most certainly could do that; however, practically, you almost always get better results using recurrent networks. That said, recurrent neural networks have two other advantages for modeling sequences:

  • They...