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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

Performance optimization tips and best practices

Improving model performance can involve different strategies. Here, we will discuss two main strategies. One strategy is to make changes to the model architecture and observe the results to get any useful insights or indications of improvement. Another strategy could involve exploring the transformation of the target variable. In this section, we will try a combination of both of these strategies.

Log transformation on the output variable

To overcome the issue of significant underestimation of the target variable at higher values, let's try log transformation on the target variable and see whether or not this helps us to further improve the model. Our next model has some...