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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

Model Evaluation

In this section, we will move on to multi-layer or deep neural networks while learning about techniques for assessing the performance of a model. As you may have already realized, there are many hyperparameter choices to be made when building a deep neural network.

Some of the challenges of applied deep learning include how to find the right values for the number of hidden layers, the number of units in each hidden layer, the type of activation function to use for each layer, and the type of optimizer and loss function for training the network. Model evaluation is required when making these decisions. By performing model evaluation, you can say whether a specific deep architecture or a specific set of hyperparameters is working poorly or well on a particular dataset, and therefore decide whether to change them or not.

Furthermore, you will learn about overfitting and underfitting. These are two very important issues that can arise when building and training...