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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
Training a Single Neuron

After revising the concepts around learning from data, we will now pay close attention to an algorithm that trains one of the most fundamental neural-based models: the perceptron. We will look at the steps required for the algorithm to function, and the stopping conditions. This chapter will present the perceptron model as the first model that represents a neuron, which aims to learn from data in a simple manner. The perceptron model is key to understanding basic and advanced neural models that learn from data. In this chapter, we will also cover the problems and considerations associated with non-linearly separable data.

Upon completion of the chapter, you should feel comfortable discussing the perceptron model, and applying its learning algorithm. You will be able to implement the algorithm over both linearly and non-linearly separable data.

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