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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

This chapter presented an overview of the classic perceptron model. We covered the theoretical model and its implementation in Python for both linearly and non-linearly separable datasets. At this point, you should feel confident that you know enough about the perceptron that you can implement it yourself. You should be able to recognize the perceptron model in the context of a neuron. Also, you should now be able to implement a pocket algorithm and early termination strategies in a perceptron, or any other learning algorithm in general.

Since the perceptron is the most essential element that paved the way for deep neural networks, after we have covered it here, the next step is to go to Chapter 6, Training Multiple Layers of Neurons. In that chapter, you will be exposed to the challenges of deep learning using the multi-layer perceptron algorithm, such as gradient descent techniques for error minimization, and hyperparameter optimization to achieve generalization. But before...