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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

Using RNNs for sequential modeling

The field of natural language understanding is a common area where recurrent neural networks (RNNs) tend to excel. You may imagine tasks such as recognizing named entities and classifying the predominant sentiment in a given piece of text. However, as we mentioned, RNNs are applicable to a broad spectrum of tasks that involve modeling time-dependent sequences of data. Generating music is also a sequence modeling task as we tend to distinguish music from a cacophony by modeling the sequence of notes that are played in a given tempo.

RNN architectures are even applicable for some visual intelligence tasks, such as video activity recognition. Recognizing whether a person is cooking, running, or robbing a bank in a given video is essentially modeling sequences of human movements and matching them to specific classes. In fact, RNNs have been deployed...