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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

Stacking RBMs to create a deep belief network

RBM models are a neural network with just two layers: the input, that is, the visible layer, and the hidden layer with latent features. However, it is possible to add additional hidden layers and an output layer. When this is done within the context of an RBM, it is referred to as a deep belief network. In this way, deep belief networks are like other deep learning architectures. For a deep belief network, each hidden layer is fully connected meaning that it learns the entire input.

The first layer is the typical RBM, where latent features are calculated from the input units. In the next layer, the new hidden layer learns the latent features from the previous hidden layer. This, in turn, can lead to an output layer for classification tasks.

Implementing a deep belief network uses a similar syntax to what was used to train the RBM....