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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)

Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading

Let's discuss the most important part of any machine learning puzzle: data preprocessing and normalization. Garbage in, garbage out would be the most appropriate statement for this situation. The more noise we let pass through, the more undesirable outputs we will receive. Therefore, you need to remove noise and keep signals at the same time.

Another challenge is handling various types of data. We need to convert raw datasets into a suitable format that a neural network can understand and perform scientific computations on. We need to convert data into a numeric vector so that it is understandable to the network and so that computations can be applied with ease. Remember that neural networks are constrained to only one type of data: vectors.

There has to be an approach regarding how data is loaded into a neural network. We cannot...