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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

Bi-directional layer in Keras

Therefore, the bi-directional layer in Keras processes a sequence of data in both the normal and reverse sequence, which allows us to pick up on words that come later on in the sequence to inform our prediction at the current time.

Essentially, the bi-directional layer duplicates any layer that's fed to it and uses one copy to process information in the normal sequential order, while the other processes data in the reverse order. Pretty neat, no? We can intuitively visualize what a bi-directional layer actually does by going through a simple example. Suppose you were modeling the two-word sequence Whats up, with a bi-directional GRU:

To do this, you will nest the GRU in a bi-directional layer, which allows Keras to generates two versions of the bi-directional model. In the preceding image, we stacked two bi-directional layers on top of each...