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Advanced Deep Learning with R

By : Bharatendra Rai
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Advanced Deep Learning with R

By: Bharatendra Rai

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a branch of machine learning based on a set of algorithms that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data. Advanced Deep Learning with R will help you understand popular deep learning architectures and their variants in R, along with providing real-life examples for them. This deep learning book starts by covering the essential deep learning techniques and concepts for prediction and classification. You will learn about neural networks, deep learning architectures, and the fundamentals for implementing deep learning with R. The book will also take you through using important deep learning libraries such as Keras-R and TensorFlow-R to implement deep learning algorithms within applications. You will get up to speed with artificial neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, long short-term memory networks, and more using advanced examples. Later, you'll discover how to apply generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate new images; autoencoder neural networks for image dimension reduction, image de-noising and image correction and transfer learning to prepare, define, train, and model a deep neural network. By the end of this book, you will be ready to implement your knowledge and newly acquired skills for applying deep learning algorithms in R through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Revisiting Deep Learning Basics
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Section 2: Deep Learning for Prediction and Classification
6
Section 3: Deep Learning for Computer Vision
12
Section 4: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
17
Section 5: The Road Ahead

Generative adversarial network overview

GANs make use of two networks:

  • Generator network
  • Discriminator network

For the generator network, noisy data, which is usually random numbers that have been generated from a standard normal distribution are provided as input. A flow chart showing an overview of a generative adversarial network is as follows:

As indicated in the preceding flowchart, the generator network uses noisy data as input and tries to create an image that we can label as fake. These fake images, along with the labels representing them as fake, are provided as input to the discriminator network. Along with the labeled fake images, we can also provide real images with labels as input to the discriminator network.

During the training process, the discriminator network tries to differentiate between a fake image created by the generator network and a real image. While...