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Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python

By : Shruti Jadon, Ankush Garg
Book Image

Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python

By: Shruti Jadon, Ankush Garg

Overview of this book

One-shot learning has been an active field of research for scientists trying to develop a cognitive machine that mimics human learning. With this book, you'll explore key approaches to one-shot learning, such as metrics-based, model-based, and optimization-based techniques, all with the help of practical examples. Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python will guide you through the exploration and design of deep learning models that can obtain information about an object from one or just a few training samples. The book begins with an overview of deep learning and one-shot learning and then introduces you to the different methods you can use to achieve it, such as deep learning architectures and probabilistic models. Once you've got to grips with the core principles, you'll explore real-world examples and implementations of one-shot learning using PyTorch 1.x on datasets such as Omniglot and MiniImageNet. Finally, you'll explore generative modeling-based methods and discover the key considerations for building systems that exhibit human-level intelligence. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with the different one- and few-shot learning methods and be able to use them to build your own deep learning models.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Section 1: One-shot Learning Introduction
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Section 2: Deep Learning Architectures
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Section 3: Other Methods and Conclusion

One-shot learning – overview

One-shot learning can be seen as an approach to train machines in a way that is similar to how humans learn. One-shot learning is an approach to learn a new task using limited supervised data with the help of strong prior knowledge. The first work published that resulted in high accuracy for the image classification problem dates back to the 2000s by Dr. Fei Fei Li—although, in recent years, researchers have made good progress tackling it through different deep learning architectures and optimization algorithms, such as matching networks, model agnostic meta-learning, and memory-augmented neural networks. One-shot learning has a lot of applications in several industriesthe medical and manufacturing industries in particular. In medicine, we can use one-shot learning when there is limited data available, for example, when working...