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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

Introduction to Colaboratory

What is Colaboratory? Colaboratory is a web-based research tool for doing machine learning and deep learning. It is essentially like Jupyter Notebook. Colaboratory is becoming very popular these days as it requires no setup.

Throughout this book, we will be using Python 3 running on Colaboratory which will have installed all the libraries we may need.

Colaboratory is free to use and is compatible with most major browsers. The company in charge of the development of the Colaboratory tool is Google. As opposed to Jupyter notebooks, in Colaboratory you are running everything on the cloud and not on your own computer. Here is the catch: you need a Google account since all the Colaboratory notebooks are saved into your personal Google Drive space. However, if you do not have a Google account, you can still continue reading to see how you can install every piece of Python library you will need to run things on your own. Still, I highly recommend you create...