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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

Dueling network architecture

The last variation of Q-learning architecture that we shall implement is the Dueling network architecture (https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06581). As the name might suggest, here, we figuratively make a neural network duel with itself using two separate estimators for the value of a state and the value of a state-action pair. You will recall from earlier in this chapter that we estimated the quality of a state-action pairs using a single stream of convolutional and densely connected layers. However, we can actually split up the Q-value function into a sum of two separate terms. The reason behind this segregated architecture is to allow our model to separately learn states that may or may not be valuable, without having to specifically learn the effect of each action that's performed at each state:

At the top of the preceding diagram, we can see the...