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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By : Niloy Purkait
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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By: Niloy Purkait

Overview of this book

Neural networks are used to solve a wide range of problems in different areas of AI and deep learning. Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras will start with teaching you about the core concepts of neural networks. You will delve into combining different neural network models and work with real-world use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, synthetic data generation, and many more. Moving on, you will become well versed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, autoencoders, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) using real-world training datasets. We will examine how to use CNNs for image recognition, how to use reinforcement learning agents, and many more. We will dive into the specific architectures of various networks and then implement each of them in a hands-on manner using industry-grade frameworks. By the end of this book, you will be highly familiar with all prominent deep learning models and frameworks, and the options you have when applying deep learning to real-world scenarios and embedding artificial intelligence as the core fabric of your organization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
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Section 2: Advanced Neural Network Architectures
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Section 3: Hybrid Model Architecture
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Section 4: Road Ahead

Training an autoencoder

The interaction between the encoder and decoder functions is governed by yet another function, which operationalizes the distance between the inputs and outputs of the encoder. We have come to know this as the loss function in neural network parlance. Hence, to train an autoencoder, we simply differentiate our encoder and decoder functions with respect to the loss function (typically using mean squared error) and use the gradients to backpropagate the model's errors and update the layer weights of the entire network.

Consequently, the learning mechanism of an autoencoder can be denoted as minimizing a loss function, and is as follows:

min L(x, g ( f ( x ) ) )

In the previous equation, L represents a loss function (such as MSE) that penalizes the output of the decoder function (g(f( x ))) for being divergent from the network's input, (x). By iteratively...