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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 Multiple Layers of Neurons

Previously, in Chapter 6, Training a Single Neuron, we explored a model involving a single neuron and the concept of the perceptron. A limitation of the perceptron model is that, at best, it can only produce linear solutions on a multi-dimensional hyperplane. However, this limitation can be easily solved by using multiple neurons and multiple layers of neurons in order to produce highly complex non-linear solutions for separable and non-separable problems. This chapter introduces you to the first challenges of deep learning using the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) algorithm, such as a gradient descent technique for error minimization, followed by hyperparameter optimization experiments to determine trustworthy accuracy.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The MLP model
  • Minimizing the error
  • Finding the best hyperparameters
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