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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

Training a GAN

We will begin our implementation with a simple MLP-based model, that is, our generator and discriminator will be dense, fully connected, networks. Then, we will move on to implementing a convolutional GAN.

An MLP model

We will now focus in creating the model shown in Figure 14.3. The model has a generator and discriminator that are distinct in terms of their numbers of layers and total parameters. It is usually the case that the generator takes more resources to build than the discriminator. This is intuitive if you think about it: the creative process is usually more complex than the process of recognition. In life, it might be easy to recognize a painting from Pablo Picasso if you see all of his paintings repeatedly.

However, it might be much harder, in comparison, to actually paint like Picasso:

Figure 14.3 - MLP-based GAN architecture

This figure depicts an icon that simply represents the fact that the discriminator will be taking both fake and valid data and learning...