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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
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Section 3: Deep Learning for Computer Vision
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Section 4: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
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Section 5: The Road Ahead

Summary

In this chapter, we started by developing deep neural networks for text classification. Due to the unique characteristics of text data, several extra preprocessing steps are required before a deep neural network sentiment classification model can be developed. We used a small sample of five tweets to go over the preprocessing steps, including tokenization, converting text data into a sequence of integers, and padding/truncation to arrive at the same sequence length. We also highlighted that automatically labeling text sequences with the appropriate sentiment is a challenging problem and general lexicons may be unable to provide useful results.

To develop a deep network sentiment classification model, we switched to a larger and ready-to-use IMDb movie review dataset that's available as part of Keras. To optimize the model's performance, we also experimented with...