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Deep Learning with R for Beginners

By : Mark Hodnett, Joshua F. Wiley, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Pablo Maldonado
Book Image

Deep Learning with R for Beginners

By: Mark Hodnett, Joshua F. Wiley, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Pablo Maldonado

Overview of this book

Deep learning has a range of practical applications in several domains, while R is the preferred language for designing and deploying deep learning models. This Learning Path introduces you to the basics of deep learning and even teaches you to build a neural network model from scratch. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll explore deep learning libraries and understand how to create deep learning models for a variety of challenges, right from anomaly detection to recommendation systems. The Learning Path will then help you cover advanced topics, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), transfer learning, and large-scale deep learning in the cloud, in addition to model optimization, overfitting, and data augmentation. Through real-world projects, you’ll also get up to speed with training convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) in R. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be well-versed with deep learning and have the skills you need to implement a number of deep learning concepts in your research work or projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Setting up a local computer for deep learning


At the time of writing this book, it is possible to purchase a computer with a GPU card suitable for deep learning for under $1,000. The current on-demand cost of the cheapest GPU computer on AWS is $0.90 per hour, which is equivalent to using the machine constantly for 46 days. So, if you are just starting with deep learning, cloud resources are the cheapest way to begin. Once you have learned the basics, then you may decide to get a GPU-based computer, but even then you may continue using cloud resources for deep learning. You have much more flexibility in the cloud. For example, in AWS, you can get a p3.16xlarge machine with 8 Tesla V100 GPU cards for an on-demand price of $24.48 per hour. An equivalent box is the DGX-1 from NVIDIA (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-1/), which has 8 Tesla V100 GPU cards and costs $149,000!

If you are considering using your own computer for deep learning, then one of the following applies to you:

  • You...