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Hands-On Neural Networks

By : Leonardo De Marchi, Laura Mitchell
Book Image

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

Implementing Autoencoders

In this chapter, we explain what autoencoders are and discuss different types of them. We will give an overview as to how they have been applied to some real-world problems. Coded examples of how different types of autoencoders can be implemented, using the Keras library in Python, will also be provided.

Specifically, the following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • An overview of autoencoders and their applications
  • Bottleneck and loss functions
  • Standard types of autoencoders and coded examples
  • Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and coded examples