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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

Callbacks

A callback is basically a Keras library function that can interact with our model during the training session to check on its internal state and save relevant training statistics for later scrutiny. While quite a few callback functions exist in keras.callbacks, we will introduce a few that are crucial. For those of you who are more technically oriented, Keras even lets you construct custom callbacks. To use a callback, you simply pass it to the fit parameter using the keyword argument callbacks. Note that the history callback is automatically applied to every Keras model, and so it does not need to be specified as long as you define the fitting process as a variable. This lets you recover the associated history object.

Importantly, if you initiated a training session previously in your Jupyter Notebook, then calling the fit() parameter on the model will continue training...