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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

Applying word embeddings to increase usable data

Extracting terms from text is a good starting point for text analysis. With the text tokens we have created so far, we can compare term frequency for different categories, which begins to tell us a story about the content that dominates a particular newsgroup. However, the term alone is just one part of the overall information we can glean from a given term. The previous plot contained people and, of course, we know what this word means, although there are multiple nuanced details connected to this term. For instance, people is a noun. It is similar to terms such as person and human and is also related to a term such as household. All of these details for people could be important but, by just extracting the term, we cannot directly derive these other details. This is where embeddings are especially helpful...