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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

Building a model

Now we can move on and build our predictive model. But before jumping into the interesting code, we must know the theory that surrounds a few important things.

Introducting Keras layers

The core building blocks of a neural network model in Keras is its layers. Layers are basically data-processing filters that contort the data they are fed into more useful representations. As we will see, prominent architectures of neural networks mostly vary in the manner in which layers are designed, and the interconnection of neurons among them. The inventor of Keras, Francois Chollet, describes this architecture as performing a progressive distillation on our data. Let's see how this works:

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