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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
Setup and Introduction to Deep Learning Frameworks

At this point, you are now familiar with machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) - this is great! You should feel ready to begin making the preparations for writing and running your own programs. This chapter helps you in the process of setting up TensorFlow and Keras, and introduces their usefulness and purpose in deep learning. Dopamine is presented as the new reinforcement learning framework that we will use later on. This chapter also briefly introduces other deep learning libraries that are important to know.

The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Introduction to Colaboratory
  • Introduction and setup of TensorFlow
  • Introduction and setup of Keras
  • Introduction to PyTorch
  • Introduction to Dopamine
  • Other deep learning libraries