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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

Preparing data for model building

In this chapter, we'll be using the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) movie reviews text data that's available in the Keras package. Note that there is no need to download this data from anywhere as it can be easily accessed from the Keras library using code that we will discuss soon. In addition, this dataset is preprocessed so that text data is converted into a sequence of integers. We cannot use text data directly for model building, and such preprocessing of text data into a sequence of integers is necessary before the data can be used as input for developing deep learning networks.

We will start by loading the imdb data using the dataset_imdb function, where we will also specify the number of most frequent words as 500 using num_words. Then, we'll split the imdb data into train and test datasets. Let's take a look at the...