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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 CNNs

CNNs are a class of deep neural networks—they are well suited to data with several channels and are sensitive to the locality of the information contained within the inputs fed into the network. This makes CNNs well suited for tasks associated with computer vision such as facial recognition, image classification, scene labeling, and more.

What is a CNN?

CNNs, also known as ConvNets, are a class or a category of neural networks that are generally accepted to be very good at image classification, that is to say, they are very good at distinguishing cats from dogs, cars from planes, and many other common classification tasks.

A CNN typically consists of convolution layers, activation layers, and pooling...