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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed many data manipulation techniques that we will come back to use all the time. It is good for you to spend time doing this now rather than later. It will make our modeling of deep learning architectures easier.

After reading this chapter, you are now able to manipulate and produce binary data for classification or for feature representation. You also know how to deal with categorical data and labels and prepare it for classification or regression. When you have real-valued data, you now know how to identify statistical properties and how to normalize such data. If you ever have the problem of data that has non-normal or non-uniform distributions, now you know how to fix that. And if you ever encounter problems of not having enough data, you learned a few data augmentation techniques. Toward the end of this chapter, you learned some of the most popular dimensionality reduction techniques. You will learn more of these along the road, for example, when...