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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

Looking for advanced topics in deep learning

The future of deep learning is hard to predict at the moment; things are changing rapidly. However, I believe that if you invest your time in the present advanced topics in deep learning, you might see these areas developing prosperously in the near future.

The following sub-sections discuss some of these advanced topics that have the potential of flourishing and being disruptive in our area.

Deep reinforcement learning

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is an area that has gained a lot of attention recently given that deep convolutional networks, and other types of deep networks, have offered solutions to problems that were difficult to solve in the past. Many of the uses of DRL are in areas where we do not have the luxury of having data on all possible conceivable cases, such as space exploration, playing video games, or self-driving cars.

Let's expand on the latter example. If we were using traditional supervised learning to make a...