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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)

4.4 Tools for BDL

In this chapter, as well as in Chapter 2, Fundamentals of Bayesian Inference, we’ve seen a lot of equations involving probability. While it’s possible to create BDL models without a probability library, having a library that supports some of the fundamental functions makes things much easier. As we’re using TensorFlow for the examples in this book, we’ll be using the TensorFlow Probability (TFP) library to help us with some of these probabilistic components. In this section, we’ll introduce TFP and show how it can be used to easily implement many of the concepts we’ve seen in Chapter 2, Fundamentals of Bayesian Inference and Chapter 4, Introducing Bayesian Deep Learning.

Much of the content up to this point has been about introducing the concept of working with distributions. As such, the first TFP module we’ll learn about is the distributions module. Let’s take a look:

 
import tensorflow_probability...