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Advanced Deep Learning with Python

By : Ivan Vasilev
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Advanced Deep Learning with Python

By: Ivan Vasilev

Overview of this book

In order to build robust deep learning systems, you’ll need to understand everything from how neural networks work to training CNN models. In this book, you’ll discover newly developed deep learning models, methodologies used in the domain, and their implementation based on areas of application. You’ll start by understanding the building blocks and the math behind neural networks, and then move on to CNNs and their advanced applications in computer vision. You'll also learn to apply the most popular CNN architectures in object detection and image segmentation. Further on, you’ll focus on variational autoencoders and GANs. You’ll then use neural networks to extract sophisticated vector representations of words, before going on to cover various types of recurrent networks, such as LSTM and GRU. You’ll even explore the attention mechanism to process sequential data without the help of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Later, you’ll use graph neural networks for processing structured data, along with covering meta-learning, which allows you to train neural networks with fewer training samples. Finally, you’ll understand how to apply deep learning to autonomous vehicles. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered key deep learning concepts and the different applications of deep learning models in the real world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Core Concepts
3
Section 2: Computer Vision
8
Section 3: Natural Language and Sequence Processing
12
Section 4: A Look to the Future

Understanding n-grams

A word-based language model defines a probability distribution over sequences of words. Given a sequence of words of length m (for example, a sentence), it assigns a probability P(w1, ... , wm) to the full sequence of words. We can use these probabilities as follows:

  • To estimate the likelihood of different phrases in NLP applications.
  • As a generative model to create new text. A word-based language model can compute the likelihood of a given word following a sequence of words.

The inference of the probability of a long sequence, say w1, ..., wm, is typically infeasible. We can calculate the joint probability of P(w1, ... , wm) with the chain rule of joint probability (Chapter 1, The Nuts and Bolts of Neural Networks):

The probability of the later words given the earlier words would be especially difficult to estimate from the data. That's why this...