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Deep Learning for Beginners

By : Dr. Pablo Rivas
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Deep Learning for Beginners

By: Dr. Pablo Rivas

Overview of this book

With information on the web exponentially increasing, it has become more difficult than ever to navigate through everything to find reliable content that will help you get started with deep learning. This book is designed to help you if you're a beginner looking to work on deep learning and build deep learning models from scratch, and you already have the basic mathematical and programming knowledge required to get started. The book begins with a basic overview of machine learning, guiding you through setting up popular Python frameworks. You will also understand how to prepare data by cleaning and preprocessing it for deep learning, and gradually go on to explore neural networks. A dedicated section will give you insights into the working of neural networks by helping you get hands-on with training single and multiple layers of neurons. Later, you will cover popular neural network architectures such as CNNs, RNNs, AEs, VAEs, and GANs with the help of simple examples, and learn how to build models from scratch. At the end of each chapter, you will find a question and answer section to help you test what you've learned through the course of the book. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with deep learning concepts and have the knowledge you need to use specific algorithms with various tools for different tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Up to Speed
8
Section 2: Unsupervised Deep Learning
13
Section 3: Supervised Deep Learning
Deep Autoencoders

This chapter introduces the concept of deep belief networks and the significance of this type of deep unsupervised learning. It explains such concepts by introducing deep autoencoders along with two regularization techniques that can help create robust models. These regularization techniques, batch normalization and dropout, have been known to facilitate the learning of deep models and have been widely adopted. We will demonstrate the power of a deep autoencoder on MNIST and on a much harder dataset known as CIFAR-10, which contains color images.

By the end of this chapter, you will appreciate the benefits of making deep belief networks by observing the ease of modeling and quality of the output that they provide. You will be able to implement your own deep autoencoder and prove to yourself that deeper models are better than shallow models for most tasks. You...