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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

Questions and answers

  1. Which regularization strategy discussed in this chapter alleviates overfitting in deep models?

Dropout.

  1. Does adding a batch normalization layer make the learning algorithm have to learn more parameters?

Actually, no. For every layer in which dropout is used, there will be only two parameters for every neuron to learn: . If you do the math, the addition of new parameters is rather small.

  1. What other deep belief networks are out there?

Restricted Boltzmann machines, for example, are another very popular example of deep belief networks. Chapter 10, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, will cover these in more detail.

  1. How come deep autoencoders perform better on MNIST than on CIFAR-10?

Actually, we do not have an objective way of saying that deep autoencoders are better on these datasets. We are biased in thinking about it in terms of clustering and data labels. Our bias in thinking about the latent representations in Figure 8.12 and Figure 8.16 in terms of labels...