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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

Hyperparameter Tuning with scikit-learn

Hyperparameter tuning is a very important technique for improving the performance of deep learning models. In Chapter 4, Evaluating Your Model with Cross-Validation Using Keras Wrappers, you learned about using a Keras wrapper with scikit-learn, which allows for Keras models to be used in a scikit-learn workflow. As a result, different general machine learning and data analysis tools and methods that are available in scikit-learn can be applied to Keras deep learning models. Among those methods are scikit-learn hyperparameter optimizers.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to perform hyperparameter tuning by writing user-defined functions to loop over possible values for each hyperparameter. In this section, you will learn how to perform it in a much easier way by using the various hyperparameter optimization methods that are available in scikit-learn. You will also get to practice applying those methods by completing an activity involving...