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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

Topics to watch for

In the past few months, a new debate started about the so-called explainable AI, an AI which isn't a sort of black box (where we understand only the underlying mathematical principles) and whose actions or decisions can be easily understood by humans. Criticism has been also been made (in general for AI, but in particular DL) about the generated results from models not being compliant with GDPR (short for General Data Protection Regulation): https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/justice-and-fundamental-rights/data-protection/2018-reform-eu-data-protection-rules_en for data related to EU citizens, or other data regulations that will probably be defined next in other parts of the world, which require the right to an explanation to prevent discriminatory effects based on different factors.

While this is a real hot and not negligible topic, and since...