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Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

By : Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili
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Book Image

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

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By: Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and deep learning with PyTorch. It acts as both a step-by-step tutorial and a reference you'll keep coming back to as you build your machine learning systems. Packed with clear explanations, visualizations, and examples, the book covers all the essential machine learning techniques in depth. While some books teach you only to follow instructions, with this machine learning book, we teach the principles allowing you to build models and applications for yourself. Why PyTorch? PyTorch is the Pythonic way to learn machine learning, making it easier to learn and simpler to code with. This book explains the essential parts of PyTorch and how to create models using popular libraries, such as PyTorch Lightning and PyTorch Geometric. You will also learn about generative adversarial networks (GANs) for generating new data and training intelligent agents with reinforcement learning. Finally, this new edition is expanded to cover the latest trends in deep learning, including graph neural networks and large-scale transformers used for natural language processing (NLP). This PyTorch book is your companion to machine learning with Python, whether you're a Python developer new to machine learning or want to deepen your knowledge of the latest developments.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Improving the quality of synthesized images using a convolutional and Wasserstein GAN

In this section, we will implement a DCGAN, which will enable us to improve the performance we saw in the previous GAN example. Additionally, we will briefly talk about an extra key technique, Wasserstein GAN (WGAN).

The techniques that we will cover in this section will include the following:

  • Transposed convolution
  • Batch normalization (BatchNorm)
  • WGAN

The DCGAN was proposed in 2016 by A. Radford, L. Metz, and S. Chintala in their article Unsupervised representation learning with deep convolutional generative adversarial networks, which is freely available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf. In this article, the researchers proposed using convolutional layers for both the generator and discriminator networks. Starting from a random vector, z, the DCGAN first uses a fully connected layer to project z into a new vector with a proper size so that it can be reshaped...