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Hands-On Deep Learning with Go

By : Gareth Seneque, Darrell Chua
Book Image

Hands-On Deep Learning with Go

By: Gareth Seneque, Darrell Chua

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language designed by Google for handling large-scale projects efficiently. The Go ecosystem comprises some really powerful deep learning tools such as DQN and CUDA. With this book, you'll be able to use these tools to train and deploy scalable deep learning models from scratch. This deep learning book begins by introducing you to a variety of tools and libraries available in Go. It then takes you through building neural networks, including activation functions and the learning algorithms that make neural networks tick. In addition to this, you'll learn how to build advanced architectures such as autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and more. You'll also understand how you can scale model deployments on the AWS cloud infrastructure for training and inference. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the art of building, training, and deploying deep learning models in Go to solve real-world problems.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Deep Learning in Go, Neural Networks, and How to Train Them
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Section 2: Implementing Deep Neural Network Architectures
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Section 3: Pipeline, Deployment, and Beyond!

Introduction to VAEs

A VAE is extremely similar in nature to the more basic autoencoder; it learns how to encode the data that it is fed into a simplified representation, and it is then able to recreate it on the other side based on that encoding. Unfortunately, standard autoencoders are usually limited to tasks such as denoising. Using standard autoencoders for generation is problematic, as the latent space in standard autoencoders does not lend itself to this purpose. The encodings they produce may not be continuous—they may cluster around very specific portions, and may be difficult to perform interpolation on.

However, as we want to build a more generative model, and we don't want to replicate the same image that we put in, we need variations on the input. If we attempt to do this with a standard autoencoder, there is a good chance that the end result will be rather...