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Deep Learning with R Cookbook

By : Swarna Gupta, Rehan Ali Ansari, Dipayan Sarkar
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Deep Learning with R Cookbook

By: Swarna Gupta, Rehan Ali Ansari, Dipayan Sarkar

Overview of this book

Deep learning (DL) has evolved in recent years with developments such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep reinforcement learning. This book will get you up and running with R 3.5.x to help you implement DL techniques. The book starts with the various DL techniques that you can implement in your apps. A unique set of recipes will help you solve binomial and multinomial classification problems, and perform regression and hyperparameter optimization. To help you gain hands-on experience of concepts, the book features recipes for implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and Long short-term memory (LSTMs) networks, as well as sequence-to-sequence models and reinforcement learning. You’ll then learn about high-performance computation using GPUs, along with learning about parallel computation capabilities in R. Later, you’ll explore libraries, such as MXNet, that are designed for GPU computing and state-of-the-art DL. Finally, you’ll discover how to solve different problems in NLP, object detection, and action identification, before understanding how to use pre-trained models in DL apps. By the end of this book, you’ll have comprehensive knowledge of DL and DL packages, and be able to develop effective solutions for different DL problems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Implementing bidirectional recurrent neural networks

Bidirectional recurrent neural networks are an extension of RNNs, where the input data is fed in both normal and reverse time order into two networks. The output that's received from both networks is combined in each time step using various kinds of merge modes, such as summation, concatenation, multiplication, and averaging. Bidirectional RNNs are mostly used in challenges where the context of the whole statement or text is dependent on the entire sequence and not just a linear interpretation. Bidirectional RNNs are costly to train due to their long gradient chains.

The following diagram is a pictorial representation of a bidirectional RNN:

In this recipe, we will implement a bidirectional RNN for the sentiment classification of IMDb reviews.

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