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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

Learning data representations with RBMs

Now that you know the basic idea behind RBMs, we will use the BernoulliRBM model to learn data representations in an unsupervised manner. As before, we will do this with the MNIST dataset to facilitate comparisons.

For some people, the task of learning representations can be thought of as feature engineering. The latter has an explicability component to the term, while the former does not necessarily require us to prescribe meaning to the learned representations.

In scikit-learn, we can create an instance of the RBM by invoking the following instructions:

from sklearn.neural_network import BernoulliRBM
rbm = BernoulliRBM()

The default parameters in the constructor of the RBM are the following:

  • n_components=256, which is the number of hidden units, , while the number of visible units, , is inferred from the dimensionality of the input.
  • learning_rate=0.1 controls the strength of the learning algorithm with respect to updates, and it is recommended...