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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)

Who this book is for

I'm a practicing data scientist, and I'm writing this book keeping other practicing data scientists and machine learning engineers in mind. If you're a software engineer applying deep learning, this book is also for you.

If you're a deep learning researcher, then this book isn't really for you; however, you should still pick up a copy so that you can criticize the lack of proofs and mathematical rigor in this book.

If you're an academic or educator, then this book is definitely for you. I've taught a survey source in data science at the University of Illinois at Springfield (go Prairie Stars!) for the past 3 years, and in doing so, I've had the opportunity to inspire a number of future machine learning people. This experience has inspired me to create this book. I think a book like this is a great way to help students build interest in a very complex topic.