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Hands-On Deep Learning with R

By : Michael Pawlus, Rodger Devine
Book Image

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

Contrasting deep learning with machine learning

One key strength of deep learning not shared by other forms of ML is its ability to factor the way variables are related. For instance, if we think back to when we were first learning about animals, then we could imagine a simple task where we are given five images of cats and five images of dogs; later, when we were shown a new image, we would be able to determine whether it was a cat or dog using the patterns that we detected from the previous images that we studied. In our example, it was the images that were to be classified as either cats or dogs. We can consider this example as a training set, and will use the same terminology for the classification of images. Mentally, our brain tries to match the images with the patterns that form the features of these two different species so that we can differentiate between them....