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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

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) from scratch with Keras. We experimented with different architectures by adding more convolutional and Dense layers and changing the activation function. We compared the performance of each model by classifying images of cars and flowers into their respective classes and comparing their accuracies.

In real-world projects, however, you almost never code a convolutional neural network from scratch. You always tweak and train them as per the requirements. This chapter will introduce you to the important concepts of transfer learning and pre-trained networks (also known as pre-trained models), both of which are used in the industry.

We will use images and, rather than building a CNN from scratch, we will match these images on pre-trained models to try and classify them. We will also tweak our models to make them more flexible. The models we will use in this chapter are called VGG16...