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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 and setup of TensorFlow

TensorFlow (TF) has in its name the word Tensor, which is a synonym of vector. TF, thus, is a Python framework that is designed to excel at vectorial operations pertaining to the modeling of neural networks. It is the most popular library for machine learning.

As data scientists, we have a preference towards TF because it is free, opensource with a strong user base, and it uses state-of-the-art research on the graph-based execution of tensor operations.

Setup

Let us now begin with instructions to set up or verify that you have the proper setup:

  1. To begin the installation of TF, run the following command in your Colaboratory:
%tensorflow_version 2.x
!pip install tensorflow

This will install about 20 libraries that are required to run TF, including numpy, for example.

Notice the exclamation mark (!) at the beginning of the command? This is how you will run shell commands on Colaboratory. For example, say that you want to remove a file named model.h5...