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Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By : Guglielmo Iozzia
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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

What to expect next for deep learning and AI

As mentioned previously, there are daily advances in technology and there's a growing availability of greater, but at the same time cheaper, computational power, along with a greater availability of data, which is driving toward the implementation of deeper and more complex models. So, at the same time, the limit for both DL and AI seems to be the sky. Trying to understand what we have to expect for these fields is speculation that could help us clearly understand what would happen in a short period of time (2-3 years), but what can happen next could be less predictable, as it has been observed that any new idea in this space is bringing up other ideas and is contributing to radically transforming ways of doing business in several areas. So, what I am going to describe in this section is related to the immediate future rather than...