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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

Optimization-Based Methods

Most deep learning models learn objectives using the gradient-descent method; however, gradient-descent optimization requires a large number of training samples for a model to converge, which makes it unfit for few-shot learning. In generic deep learning models, we train our models to learn to accomplish a definite objective, whereas humans train to learn any objective. Following this observation, various researchers have created different optimization approaches that focus on learn-to-learn mechanisms.

In other words, the system focuses on how to converge any loss function (objective) instead of minimizing a single loss function (objective), which makes this algorithmic approach task and domain invariant. For example, you don't need to train a model to recognize types of flowers using a cross-entropy loss function; instead, you can train the model...