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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 an example CNN

To illustrate how a CNN works in practice, we will be building a model to recognize whether an object in a photo is a cat or not. The dataset we are using has more depth than this, but it would take a rather long time to train it to correctly classify everything. It is fairly trivial to extend the example to classify everything, but we would rather not be sitting there for a week waiting for the model to train.

For our example, we will be using the following structure:

CIFAR-10

We are using CIFAR-10 for our example this time instead of MNIST. As such, we do not have the convenience of using the already convenient MNIST loader. Let's quickly go through what it takes to load this new dataset!

We...