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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!

Building a neural network for handwriting recognition

Now that we have loaded all that useful data, let's put it to good use. Since it's full of handwritten digits, we should most certainly build a model to recognize this handwriting and what it says.

In Chapter 2, What is a Neural Network and How Do I Train One?, we demonstrated how to build a simple neural network. Now, it's time to build something more substantial: a model for recognizing handwriting from the MNIST database.

Introduction to the model structure

First, let's think back to the original example: we had a single-layer network, which we wanted to get from a 4 x 3 matrix to a 4 x 1 vector. Now, we have to get from an MNIST image that is 28...