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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

Interpreting Neural Network Output

In the previous chapter, the ability to use the DL4J UI to monitor and debug a Multilayer Neural Network (MNN) was fully described. The last part of the previous chapter also explained how to interpret and use the real-time visual results in the UI charts to tune training. In this chapter, we will explain how to evaluate the accuracy of a model after its training and before it is moved to production. Several evaluation strategies exist for neural networks. This chapter covers the principal ones and all their implementations, which are provided by the DL4J API.

While describing the different evaluation techniques, I have tried to reduce the usage of math and formulas as much as possible and keep the focus on the Scala implementation with DL4J and Spark.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Interpreting the output of a neural network...