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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
Generative Adversarial Networks

Reading about making sushi is easy; actually cooking a new kind of sushi is harder than we might think. In deep learning, the creative process is harder, but not impossible. We have seen how to build models that can classify numbers, using dense, convolutional, or recurrent networks, and today we will see how to build a model that can create numbers. This chapter introduces a learning approach known as generative adversarial networks, which belong to the family of adversarial learning and generative models. The chapter explains the concepts of generators and discriminators and why having good approximations of the distribution of the training data can lead to the success of the model in other areas such as data augmentation. By the end of the chapter, you will know why adversarial training is important; you will be able to code the necessary mechanisms...