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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)

To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book, you should be familiar with Python. You'd benefit from some basic knowledge of calculus and statistics. The code examples are best run on a Linux machine with an NVIDIA GPU capable of running PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We can parameterize this house with a five-dimensional vector, x = (100, 25, 3, 2, 7)."

A block of code is set as follows:

import torch

torch.manual_seed(1234)

hidden_units = 5

net = torch.nn.Sequential(
torch.nn.Linear(4, hidden_units),
torch.nn.ReLU(),
torch.nn.Linear(hidden_units, 3)
)
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