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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

Summary


We have covered a lot of options for training deep learning models in this chapter! We discussed options for running it locally and showed the importance of having a GPU card. We used the three main cloud providers to train deep learning models in R on the cloud. Cloud computing is a fantastic resource – we gave an example of a super-computer costing $149,000. A few years ago, such a resource would have been out of reach for practically everyone, but now thanks to cloud computing, you can rent a machine like this on an hourly basis.

For AWS, Azure, and Paperspace, we installed MXNet on the cloud resources, giving us the option of which deep learning library to use. I encourage you to use the examples in the other chapters in this book and try all the different cloud providers here. It is amazing to think that you could do so and your total cost could be less than $10!

In the next chapter, we build an image classification solution from image files. We will demonstrate how to apply transfer...