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The Deep Learning with Keras Workshop

By : Matthew Moocarme, Mahla Abdolahnejad, Ritesh Bhagwat
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The Deep Learning with Keras Workshop

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By: Matthew Moocarme, Mahla Abdolahnejad, Ritesh Bhagwat

Overview of this book

New experiences can be intimidating, but not this one! This beginner’s guide to deep learning is here to help you explore deep learning from scratch with Keras, and be on your way to training your first ever neural networks. What sets Keras apart from other deep learning frameworks is its simplicity. With over two hundred thousand users, Keras has a stronger adoption in industry and the research community than any other deep learning framework. The Deep Learning with Keras Workshop starts by introducing you to the fundamental concepts of machine learning using the scikit-learn package. After learning how to perform the linear transformations that are necessary for building neural networks, you'll build your first neural network with the Keras library. As you advance, you'll learn how to build multi-layer neural networks and recognize when your model is underfitting or overfitting to the training data. With the help of practical exercises, you’ll learn to use cross-validation techniques to evaluate your models and then choose the optimal hyperparameters to fine-tune their performance. Finally, you’ll explore recurrent neural networks and learn how to train them to predict values in sequential data. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to confidently train your own neural network models.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to prepare data and construct machine learning models. We achieved this by utilizing Python and libraries such as pandas and scikit-learn. We also used the algorithms in scikit-learn to build our machine learning models.

Then, we learned how to load data into Python, as well as how to manipulate data so that a machine learning model can be trained on the data. This involved converting all the columns into numerical data types. We also created a basic logistic regression classification model using scikit-learn algorithms. We divided the dataset into training and test datasets and fit the model to the training dataset. We evaluated the performance of the model on the test dataset using the model evaluation metrics, that is, accuracy, precision, recall, and fscore.

Finally, we iterated on this basic model by creating two models with different types of regularization for the model. We utilized cross-validation to determine the optimal parameter to use for the regularization parameter.

In the next chapter, we will use these same concepts to create the model using the Keras library. We will use the same dataset and attempt to predict the same target value for the same classification task. By doing so, we will learn how to use regularization, cross-validation, and model evaluation metrics when fitting our neural network to the data.