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Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By : Guglielmo Iozzia
Book Image

Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By: Guglielmo Iozzia

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where datasets with several layers of complexity can be processed. Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark addresses the sheer complexity of technical and analytical parts and the speed at which deep learning solutions can be implemented on Apache Spark. The book starts with the fundamentals of Apache Spark and deep learning. You will set up Spark for deep learning, learn principles of distributed modeling, and understand different types of neural nets. You will then implement deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) on Spark. As you progress through the book, you will gain hands-on experience of what it takes to understand the complex datasets you are dealing with. During the course of this book, you will use popular deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Deeplearning4j, and Keras to train your distributed models. By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience with the implementation of your models on a variety of use cases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Appendix A: Functional Programming in Scala
Appendix B: Image Data Preparation for Spark

NLP

NLP is the field of using computer science and AI to process and analyze natural language data and then make machines able to interpret it as humans do. During the 1980s, when this concept started to get hyped, language processing systems were designed by hand coding a set of rules. Later, following increases in calculation power, a different approach, mostly based on statistical models, replaced the original one. A later ML approach (supervised learning first, also semi-supervised or unsupervised at present time) brought advances in this field, such as voice recognition software and human language translation, and will probably lead to more complex scenarios, such as natural language understanding and generation.

Here is how NLP works. The first task, called the speech-to-text process, is to understand the natural language received. A built-in model performs speech recognition...