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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By : Niloy Purkait
Book Image

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

Replicating versus generating content

While our autoencoding use cases in the last chapter were limited to image reconstruction and denoising, these use cases are quite distinct from the one we are about to address in this chapter. So far, we made our autoencoders reconstruct some given inputs, by learning an arbitrary mapping function. In this chapter, we want to understand how to train a model to create new instances of some content, instead of simply replicating its inputs. In other words, what if we asked a neural network to truly be creative and generate content just like human beings do?. Can this even be achieved? The canonical answer common in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is yes, but it is complicated. In the search for a more detailed answer, we arrive at the topic of this chapter: generative networks.

While a plethora of generative networks exist, ranging...