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Hands-On Deep Learning with R

By : Michael Pawlus, Rodger Devine
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Hands-On Deep Learning with R

By: Michael Pawlus, Rodger Devine

Overview of this book

Deep learning enables efficient and accurate learning from a massive amount of data. This book will help you overcome a number of challenges using various deep learning algorithms and architectures with R programming. This book starts with a brief overview of machine learning and deep learning and how to build your first neural network. You’ll understand the architecture of various deep learning algorithms and their applicable fields, learn how to build deep learning models, optimize hyperparameters, and evaluate model performance. Various deep learning applications in image processing, natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and predictive analytics will also be covered. Later chapters will show you how to tackle recognition problems such as image recognition and signal detection, programmatically summarize documents, conduct topic modeling, and forecast stock market prices. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the common applications of GANs and how to build a face generation model using them. Finally, you’ll get to grips with using reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning to solve various real-world problems. By the end of this deep learning book, you will be able to build and deploy your own deep learning applications using appropriate frameworks and algorithms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Deep Learning Basics
5
Section 2: Deep Learning Applications
12
Section 3: Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning Basics

Welcome to Hands-On Deep Learning with R! This book will take you through all of the steps that are necessary to code deep learning models using the R statistical programming language. It begins with simple examples as the first step for those just getting started, along with a review of the foundational elements of deep learning for those with more experience. As you progress through this book, you will learn how to code increasingly complex deep learning solutions for a wide variety of tasks. However, regardless of the complexity, each chapter will carefully detail each step. This is so that all topics and concepts can be fully comprehended and the reason for every line of code is completely explained.

In this chapter, we will go through a quick overview of the machine learning process as it will form a base for the subsequent chapters of this book.&...