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Hands-On Neural Networks

By : Leonardo De Marchi, Laura Mitchell
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Hands-On Neural Networks

By: Leonardo De Marchi, Laura Mitchell

Overview of this book

Neural networks play a very important role in deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI), with applications in a wide variety of domains, right from medical diagnosis, to financial forecasting, and even machine diagnostics. Hands-On Neural Networks is designed to guide you through learning about neural networks in a practical way. The book will get you started by giving you a brief introduction to perceptron networks. You will then gain insights into machine learning and also understand what the future of AI could look like. Next, you will study how embeddings can be used to process textual data and the role of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) in helping you solve common natural language processing (NLP) problems. The later chapters will demonstrate how you can implement advanced concepts including transfer learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs), autoencoders, and reinforcement learning. Finally, you can look forward to further content on the latest advancements in the field of neural networks. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to build, train, and optimize your own neural network model that can be used to provide predictable solutions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started
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Section 2: Deep Learning Applications
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Section 3: Advanced Applications

GAN variations and timelines

There have been many significant developments to GAN research in recent times. The following timeline shows some of the most noteworthy advances:

This chapter will now give insight into these developments, their applications, and results.

Conditional GANs

Conditional GANs are a central theme that form the building blocks of many state-of-the-art GANs. The paper submitted by Mirza and Osindero in 2014 shows how integrating the class labels of data yields greater stability in GAN training. This idea of conditioning GANs with prior information is a common approach in future GAN research. It is particularly important for papers whose main focus is on image-to-image or text-to-image applications:

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