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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

Sequential Memory and Sequential Modeling

If we analyze the stock price of Alphabet for the past 6 months, as shown in the following screenshot, we can see that there is a trend. To predict or forecast future stock prices, we need to gain an understanding of this trend and then do our mathematical computations while keeping this trend in mind:

Figure 9.1: Alphabet's stock price over the last 6 months

This trend is deeply related to sequential memory and sequential modeling. If you have a model that can remember the previous outputs and then predict the next output based on the previous outputs, we say that the model has sequential memory.

The modeling that is done to process this sequential memory is known as sequential modeling. This is not only true for stock market data, but it is also true in NLP applications; we will look at one such example in the next section when we study RNNs.