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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

Dissecting the LSTM

As mentioned, the LSTM architecture relies on a series of gates that can independently influence the activation values (a(t-1)), as well as the memory (c(t-1)), from previous timesteps as information flows through an LSTM unit. These values are transformed as the unit spits out the activations (at) and memory (ct) vectors pertaining to the current timestep at each iteration. While their earlier counterparts enter the unit separately, they are allowed to interact with each other in two broad manners. In the following diagram, the gates (denoted with the capital Greek letter gama, or Γ) represent sigmoid activation functions applied to the dot product of their respectively initialized weight matrix, with previous activations and current input:

Comparing the...