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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

Convolution in n-dimensions

The name of CNNs comes from their signature operation: convolution. This operation is a mathematical operation that is very common in the signal processing area. Let's go ahead and discuss the convolution operation.

1-dimension

Let's start with the discrete-time convolution function in one dimension. Suppose that we have input data, , and some weights, , we can define the discrete-time convolution operation between the two as follows:

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In this equation, the convolution operation is denoted by a * symbol. Without complicating things too much, we can say that is inverted, , and then shifted, . The resulting vector is , which can be interpreted as the filtered version of the input when the filter is applied.

If we define the two vectors as follows, and , then the convolution operation yields .

Figure 12.1 shows every single step involved in obtaining this result by inverting and shifting the filter and multiplying across the input data:

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