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Hands-On Deep Learning with Go

By : Gareth Seneque, Darrell Chua
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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Section 1: Deep Learning in Go, Neural Networks, and How to Train Them
Section 1: Deep Learning in Go, Neural Networks, and How to Train Them
2
Introduction to Deep Learning in Go
Introduction to Deep Learning in Go
Introducing DL
Overview of ML in Go
Using Gorgonia
Summary
3
What Is a Neural Network and How Do I Train One?
What Is a Neural Network and How Do I Train One?
A basic neural network
Activation functions
Gradient descent and backpropagation
Advanced gradient descent algorithms
Summary
4
Beyond Basic Neural Networks - Autoencoders and RBMs
Beyond Basic Neural Networks - Autoencoders and RBMs
Loading data – MNIST
Building a neural network for handwriting recognition
Building an autoencoder – generating MNIST digits
Building an RBM for Netflix-style collaborative filtering
Summary
Further reading
5
CUDA - GPU-Accelerated Training
CUDA - GPU-Accelerated Training
CPUs versus GPUs
Understanding Gorgonia and CUDA
Building a model in Gorgonia with CUDA support
Performance benchmarking of CPU versus GPU models for training and inference
Summary
6
Section 2: Implementing Deep Neural Network Architectures
Section 2: Implementing Deep Neural Network Architectures
7
Next Word Prediction with Recurrent Neural Networks
Next Word Prediction with Recurrent Neural Networks
Vanilla RNNs
Training RNNs
RNNs and vanishing gradients
Augmenting your RNN with GRU/LSTM units
Building an LSTM in Gorgonia
Summary
8
Object Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
Object Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
Introduction to CNNs
Building an example CNN
Assessing the results
Summary
Further reading
9
Maze Solving with Deep Q-Networks
Maze Solving with Deep Q-Networks
What is a DQN?
Solving a maze using a DQN in Gorgonia
Summary
Further reading
10
Generative Models with Variational Autoencoders
Generative Models with Variational Autoencoders
Introduction to VAEs
Building a VAE on MNIST
Assessing the results
Summary
Further reading
11
Section 3: Pipeline, Deployment, and Beyond!
Section 3: Pipeline, Deployment, and Beyond!
12
Building a Deep Learning Pipeline
Building a Deep Learning Pipeline
Exploring Pachyderm
Integrating our CNN
Summary
13
Scaling Deployment
Scaling Deployment
Lost (and found) in the cloud
Building deployment templates
Running a model on a K8s cluster
Summary
14
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Using Gorgonia

At the time of writing this book, there are two libraries that would typically be considered for DL in Go, TensorFlow and Gorgonia. However, while TensorFlow is definitely well regarded and has a full-featured API in Python, this is not the case in Go. As discussed previously, the Go bindings for TensorFlow are only suited to loading models that have already been created in Python, but not for creating models from scratch.

Gorgonia has been built from the ground up to be a Go library that is able to both train ML models and perform inference. This is a particularly valuable property, especially if you have an existing Go application or you are looking to build a Go application. Gorgonia allows you to develop, train, and maintain your DL model in your existing Go environment. For this book, we will be using Gorgonia exclusively to build models.

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