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Deep Learning from the Basics

By : Koki Saitoh
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Book Image

Deep Learning from the Basics

5 (1)
By: Koki Saitoh

Overview of this book

Deep learning is rapidly becoming the most preferred way of solving data problems. This is thanks, in part, to its huge variety of mathematical algorithms and their ability to find patterns that are otherwise invisible to us. Deep Learning from the Basics begins with a fast-paced introduction to deep learning with Python, its definition, characteristics, and applications. You’ll learn how to use the Python interpreter and the script files in your applications, and utilize NumPy and Matplotlib in your deep learning models. As you progress through the book, you’ll discover backpropagation—an efficient way to calculate the gradients of weight parameters—and study multilayer perceptrons and their limitations, before, finally, implementing a three-layer neural network and calculating multidimensional arrays. By the end of the book, you’ll have the knowledge to apply the relevant technologies in deep learning.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Computational Graphs

A computational graph shows the process of calculation. This graph is used as a graph of data structure and is represented by multiple nodes and edges (meaning, straight lines that connect nodes). In this section, we will solve easy problems to familiarize ourselves with computational graphs before advancing step by step into more complex backpropagation.

Using Computational Graphs to Solve Problems

The problems in this section are simple enough that you can solve them with mental arithmetic, but the purpose here is to get familiar with computational graphs. Learning to use computational graphs will be helpful for the complicated calculations we will cover later, so it's important to first master how to use them here.

Question 1: Taro bought 2 apples that were 100 yen apiece. Calculate the amount of money he paid if a 10% consumption tax was applied.

A computational graph shows the process of calculation with nodes and arrows. A node is represented...