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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
Convolutional Neural Networks

This chapter introduces convolutional neural networks, starting with the convolution operation and moving forward to ensemble layers of convolutional operations, with the aim of learning about filters that operate over datasets. The pooling strategy is then introduced to show how such changes can improve the training and performance of a model. The chapter concludes by showing how to visualize the filters learned.

By the end of this chapter, you will be familiar with the motivation behind convolutional neural networks and will know how the convolution operation works in one and two dimensions. When you finish this chapter, you will know how to implement convolution in layers so as to learn filters through gradient descent. Finally, you will have a chance to use many tools that you learned previously, including dropout and batch normalization, but...