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Enhancing Deep Learning with Bayesian Inference

By : Matt Benatan, Jochem Gietema, Marian Schneider
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Enhancing Deep Learning with Bayesian Inference

By: Matt Benatan, Jochem Gietema, Marian Schneider

Overview of this book

Deep learning has an increasingly significant impact on our lives, from suggesting content to playing a key role in mission- and safety-critical applications. As the influence of these algorithms grows, so does the concern for the safety and robustness of the systems which rely on them. Simply put, typical deep learning methods do not know when they don’t know. The field of Bayesian Deep Learning contains a range of methods for approximate Bayesian inference with deep networks. These methods help to improve the robustness of deep learning systems as they tell us how confident they are in their predictions, allowing us to take more in how we incorporate model predictions within our applications. Through this book, you will be introduced to the rapidly growing field of uncertainty-aware deep learning, developing an understanding of the importance of uncertainty estimation in robust machine learning systems. You will learn about a variety of popular Bayesian Deep Learning methods, and how to implement these through practical Python examples covering a range of application scenarios. By the end of the book, you will have a good understanding of Bayesian Deep Learning and its advantages, and you will be able to develop Bayesian Deep Learning models for safer, more robust deep learning systems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

1.2 Wonders of the deep learning age

Over the last 10 to 15 years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the landscape of ML thanks to the enormous success of deep learning. Perhaps one of the most impressive feats of the universal impact of deep learning is that it has affected fields from medical imaging and manufacturing all the way through to tools for translation and content creation.

While deep learning has only seen great success over recent years, many of its core principles are already well established. Researchers have been working with neural networks for some time – in fact, one could argue that the first neural network was introduced by Frank Rosenblatt as early as 1957! This, of course, wasn’t as sophisticated as the models we have today, but it was an important component of these models: the perceptron, as shown in Figure 1.1.

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Figure 1.1: Diagram of a single perceptron

The 1980s saw the introduction of many now-familiar concepts, with the introduction...