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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)

Accelerating with MXNet

MXNet stands for mix and maximize. It is a flexible and scalable deep learning framework that is used to develop and deploy deep learning models. It is capable of running on various heterogeneous systems in a memory-efficient way. MXNet is also supported by various cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Developers have the flexibility to go for both imperative and symbolic programming, making it easier for debugging and hyperparameter tuning while maximizing efficiency. Another advantage that MXNet offers is that it supports multiple languages such as Python, R, Scala, Clojure, Julia, Perl, MATLAB, and JavaScript. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to set up MXNet in Windows and Linux systems.

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