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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

Summary

This intermediate chapter showed how to create CNNs. You learned about the convolution operation, which is the fundamental concept behind them. You also learned how to create convolutional layers and aggregated pooling strategies. You designed a network to learn filters to recognize objects based on CIFAR-10 and learned how to display the learned filters.

At this point, you should feel confident explaining the motivation behind convolutional neural networks rooted in computer vision and signal processing. You should feel comfortable coding the convolution operation in one and two dimensions using NumPy, SciPy, and Keras/TensorFlow. Furthermore, you should feel confident implementing convolution operations in layers and learning filters through gradient descent techniques. If you are asked to show what the network has learned, you should feel prepared to implement a simple visualization method to display the filters learned.

CNNs are great at encoding highly correlated spatial...