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Java Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Rahul Raj
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Java Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Rahul Raj

Overview of this book

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. With this book, you will see how to perform deep learning using Deeplearning4j (DL4J) – the most popular Java library for training neural networks efficiently. This book starts by showing you how to install and configure Java and DL4J on your system. You will then gain insights into deep learning basics and use your knowledge to create a deep neural network for binary classification from scratch. As you progress, you will discover how to build a convolutional neural network (CNN) in DL4J, and understand how to construct numeric vectors from text. This deep learning book will also guide you through performing anomaly detection on unsupervised data and help you set up neural networks in distributed systems effectively. In addition to this, you will learn how to import models from Keras and change the configuration in a pre-trained DL4J model. Finally, you will explore benchmarking in DL4J and optimize neural networks for optimal results. By the end of this book, you will have a clear understanding of how you can use DL4J to build robust deep learning applications in Java.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Developing Applications in a Distributed Environment

As the demand increases regarding the quantity of data and resource requirements for parallel computations, legacy approaches may not perform well. So far, we have seen how big data development has become famous and is the most followed approach by enterprises due to the same reasons. DL4J supports neural network training, evaluation, and inference on distributed clusters.

Modern approaches to heavy training, or output generation tasks, distribute training effort across multiple machines. This also brings additional challenges. We need to ensure that we have the following constraints checked before we use Spark to perform distributed training/evaluation/inference:

  • Our data should be significantly large enough to justify the need for distributed clusters. Small network/data on Spark doesn't really gain any performance improvements...