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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
Learning from Data

Data preparation takes a great deal of time for complex datasets, as we saw in the previous chapter. However, time spent on data preparation is time well invested... this I can guarantee! In the same way, investing time in understanding the basic theory of learning from data is super important for any person that wants to join the field of deep learning. Understanding the fundamentals of learning theory will pay off whenever you read new algorithms or evaluate your own models. It will also make your life much easier when you get to the later chapters in this book.

More specifically, this chapter introduces the most elementary concepts around the theory of deep learning, including measuring performance on regression and classification as well as the identification of overfitting. It also offers some warnings about the sensibility of—and the need to optimize...