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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)

Normalizing data for network efficiency

Normalization makes a neural network's job much easier. It helps the neural network treat all the features the same, irrespective of their range of values. The main goal of normalization is to arrange the numeric values in a dataset on a common scale without actually disturbing the difference in the range of values. Not all datasets require a normalization strategy, but if they do have different numeric ranges, then it is a crucial step to perform normalization on the data. Normalization has a direct impact on the stability/accuracy of the model. ND4J has various preprocessors to handle normalization. In this recipe, we will normalize the data.

How to do it...

  1. Create a dataset...