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Hands-On Deep Learning Algorithms with Python

By : Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Hands-On Deep Learning Algorithms with Python

By: Sudharsan Ravichandiran

Overview of this book

Deep learning is one of the most popular domains in the AI space that allows you to develop multi-layered models of varying complexities. This book introduces you to popular deep learning algorithms—from basic to advanced—and shows you how to implement them from scratch using TensorFlow. Throughout the book, you will gain insights into each algorithm, the mathematical principles involved, and how to implement it in the best possible manner. The book starts by explaining how you can build your own neural networks, followed by introducing you to TensorFlow, the powerful Python-based library for machine learning and deep learning. Moving on, you will get up to speed with gradient descent variants, such as NAG, AMSGrad, AdaDelta, Adam, and Nadam. The book will then provide you with insights into recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and LSTM and how to generate song lyrics with RNN. Next, you will master the math necessary to work with convolutional and capsule networks, widely used for image recognition tasks. You will also learn how machines understand the semantics of words and documents using CBOW, skip-gram, and PV-DM. Finally, you will explore GANs, including InfoGAN and LSGAN, and autoencoders, such as contractive autoencoders and VAE. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with all the skills you need to implement deep learning in your own projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Deep Learning
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Section 2: Fundamental Deep Learning Algorithms
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Section 3: Advanced Deep Learning Algorithms

What is TensorFlow?

TensorFlow is an open source software library from Google, which is extensively used for numerical computation. It is one of the most popularly used libraries for building deep learning models. It is highly scalable and runs on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. It was originally developed by the researchers and engineers of the Google Brain team.

TensorFlow supports execution on everything, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs, which are tensor processing units, and on mobile and embedded platforms. Due to its flexible architecture and ease of deployment, it has become a popular choice of library among many researchers and scientists for building deep learning models.

In TensorFlow, every computation is represented by a data flow graph, also known as a computational graph, where a node represents operations, such as addition or multiplication...