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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By : Willem Meints
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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

By: Willem Meints

Overview of this book

Cognitive Toolkit is a very popular and recently open sourced deep learning toolkit by Microsoft. Cognitive Toolkit is used to train fast and effective deep learning models. This book will be a quick introduction to using Cognitive Toolkit and will teach you how to train and validate different types of neural networks, such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks. This book will help you understand the basics of deep learning. You will learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit to build deep learning models and discover what makes this framework unique so that you know when to use it. This book will be a quick, no-nonsense introduction to the library and will teach you how to train different types of neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, autoencoders, and more, using Cognitive Toolkit. Then we will look at two scenarios in which deep learning can be used to enhance human capabilities. The book will also demonstrate how to evaluate your models' performance to ensure it trains and runs smoothly and gives you the most accurate results. Finally, you will get a short overview of how Cognitive Toolkit fits in to a DevOps environment
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Working with small in-memory datasets

There are many ways in which you can feed data to the CNTK trainer. Which technique you should use depends on the size of the dataset and the format of the data. Let's take a look at how to work with smaller in-memory datasets first.

When you work with in-memory data in Python you will most likely use a framework such as Pandas or NumPy. These frameworks work with vectors and matrices of floating point or object data at their core and offer various levels of convenience when it comes to working with data.

Let's go over each of these libraries and explore how you can use data stored in these libraries to train your neural network.

Working with numpy arrays

The first library we...