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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)

9.5 Your next steps in BDL

Throughout this chapter, we’ve concluded our introduction to BDL by taking a look at a variety of techniques that could help you to improve on the fundamental methods explored in the book. We’ve also taken a look at how the powerful gold-standard of Bayesian inference – the GP – can be adapted to tasks generally reserved for deep learning. While it is indeed possible to adapt GPs to these tasks, we also advise that it’s generally easier and more practical to use the methods presented in this book, or methods derived from them. As always, it’s up to you as the machine learning engineer to determine what is best for the task at hand, and we are confident that the material from the book will equip you well for the challenges ahead.

While this book provides you with the necessary fundamentals to get started, there’s always more learn – particularly in such a rapidly moving field! In the next section, we’...