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Hands-On One-shot Learning with Python

By : Shruti Jadon, Ankush Garg
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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

Summary

Deep learning has revolutionized the field of data science and it is still making progress, but there are still major industries that are yet to experience all of the advantages of deep learning, such as the medical and manufacturing industries. The zenith of human achievement will be to create a machine that can learn as humans do and that can become an expert in the same way humans can. Successful deep learning, though, usually comes with the prerequisite of having very large datasets to work from. Fortunately, this book focuses on architectures that can do away with this prerequisite.

In this chapter, we learned about the human brain and how the structure of an artificial neural network is close to the structure of our brain. We introduced the basic concepts of machine learning and deep learning, along with their challenges. We also discussed one-shot learning and its...