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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!

Overview of ML in Go

This section will take a look at the ML ecosystem in Go, first discussing the essentials we want from a library, and then assessing each of the main Go ML libraries in turn.

Go's ML ecosystem has historically been quite limited. The language was introduced in 2009, well before the DL revolution that has brought many new programmers into the fold. You might assume that Go has seen the growth in libraries and tools that other languages have. History, instead, determined that many of the higher-level APIs for the mathematical operations that underpin our networks have appeared as Python libraries (or have complete Python bindings). There are numerous well-known examples of this, including PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, Theano, and Caffe (you get the idea).

Unfortunately, these libraries have either zero or incomplete bindings for Go. For example, TensorFlow...