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Python Deep Learning - Second Edition

By : Ivan Vasilev, Daniel Slater, Gianmario Spacagna, Peter Roelants, Valentino Zocca
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Python Deep Learning - Second Edition

By: Ivan Vasilev, Daniel Slater, Gianmario Spacagna, Peter Roelants, Valentino Zocca

Overview of this book

With the surge in artificial intelligence in applications catering to both business and consumer needs, deep learning is more important than ever for meeting current and future market demands. With this book, you’ll explore deep learning, and learn how to put machine learning to use in your projects. This second edition of Python Deep Learning will get you up to speed with deep learning, deep neural networks, and how to train them with high-performance algorithms and popular Python frameworks. You’ll uncover different neural network architectures, such as convolutional networks, recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and capsule networks. You’ll also learn how to solve problems in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and speech recognition. You'll study generative model approaches such as variational autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate images. As you delve into newly evolved areas of reinforcement learning, you’ll gain an understanding of state-of-the-art algorithms that are the main components behind popular games Go, Atari, and Dota. By the end of the book, you will be well-versed with the theory of deep learning along with its real-world applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Recurrent neural networks

RNN is a type of neural network, which can process sequential data with variable length. Examples of such data include the words of a sentence or the price of a stock in various moments of time. By using the word sequential, we imply that the elements of the sequence are related to each other and their order matters. For example, if we take a book and shuffle randomly all the words in it, the text will loose it's meaning, even though we'll still know the individual words.

RNNs get their name because they apply the same function over a sequence recurrently. We can define an RNN as a recurrence relation:

Here, f is a differentiable function, st is a vector of values called internal network state (at step t), and xt is the network input at step t. Unlike regular networks, where the state only depends on the current input (and network weights)...