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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 and Wide Neural Networks

So far, we have covered a variety of unsupervised deep learning methodologies that can lead to many interesting applications, such as feature extraction, information compression, and data augmentation. However, as we move toward supervised deep learning methodologies that can perform classification or regression, for example, we have to begin by addressing an important question related to neural networks that might be in your mind already: what is the difference between wide and deep neural networks?

In this chapter, you will implement deep and wide neural networks to see the difference in the performance and complexities of both. As a bonus, we will cover the concepts of dense networks and sparse networks in terms of the connections between neurons. We will also optimize the dropout rates in our networks to maximize the generalization ability of...