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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

Future of machine learning

Machine learning has the potential to improve almost every field of our society. Anywhere where learning, optimization, and decision-making are involved, there is a chance for machine learning to improve the current state of that particular field. With more recent technologies, such as GANs, more and more fields are going to opt for machine learning.

Some of the most promising research applications can be found in the following fields:

  • Drug discovery
  • Healthcare
  • Self-driving cars
  • Translation
  • Legal
  • Art:
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Generative methods, such as GANs, are now being explored in drug discovery, potentially making the process much cheaper than it was earlier. In healthcare, deep learning methods are now able to automate a lot of visual diagnostic tasks, for example, radiologists' tasks.

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