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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

Introduction to unsupervised learning

As machine learning has progressed over the last few years, I have come across many ways to categorize the different types of learning. Recently, at the NeurIPS 2018 conference in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Alex Graves shared information about the different types of learning, shown in Figure 7.1:

Figure 7.1 – Different types of learning

Such efforts at categorization are very useful today when there are many learning algorithms being studied and improved. The first row depicts active learning, which means that there is a sense of interaction between the learning algorithm and the data. For example, in reinforcement learning and active learning operating over labeled data, the reward policies can inform what type of data the model will read in the following iterations. However, traditional supervised learning, which is what we have studied so far, involves no interaction with the data source and instead assumes that the dataset is fixed and that...