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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

Monitoring and debugging neural networks during their training phases

Between Chapter 5, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Chapter 7, Training Neural Networks with Spark, a full example was presented regarding a CNN model's configuration and training. This was an example of image classification. The training data that was used came from the MNIST database. The training set contained 60,000 examples of handwritten digits, with each image labeled by an integer. Let's use the same example to show the visual facilities that are provided by DL4J for monitoring and debugging a network at training time.

At the end of training, you can programmatically save the generated model as a ZIP archive and throw the writeModel method of the ModelSerializer class (https://static.javadoc.io/org.deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-nn/0.9.1/org/deeplearning4j/util/ModelSerializer.html):

ModelSerializer...