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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

Thinking about the ethical implications of GANs

Some ethical thoughts about generative models have already been provided in Chapter 9, Variational Autoencoders. However, a second round of thoughts is in order given the adversarial nature of GANs. That is, there is an implicit demand from a GAN to trick a critic in a min-max game where the generator needs to come out victorious (or the critic as well). This concept generalized to adversarial learning provides the means to attack existing machine learning models.

Very successful computer vision models such as VGG16 (a CNN model) have been attacked by models that perform adversarial attacks. There are patches that you can print, put on a t-shirt, cap, or any object, and as soon as the patch is present in the input to the models being attacked, they are fooled into thinking that the existing object is a completely different one (Brown, T. B., et al. (2017)). Here is an example of an adversarial patch that tricks a model into thinking that...