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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 Selection with Cross-Validation

Cross-validation provides us with robust estimation of model performance on unseen examples. For this reason, it can be used to decide between two models for a particular problem or to decide which model parameters (or hyperparameters) to use for a particular problem. In these cases, we would like to find out which model or which set of model parameters/hyperparameters results in the lowest test error rate. Therefore, we will select that model or that set of parameters/hyperparameters for our problem.

In this section, you are going to practice using cross-validation for this purpose. You will learn how to define a set of hyperparameters for your deep learning model and then write user-defined functions in order to perform cross-validation on your model for each of the possible combinations of hyperparameters. Then, you will observe which combination of hyperparameters leads to the lowest test error rate, and that combination will be your choice...