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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)
1
Section 1: One-shot Learning Introduction
3
Section 2: Deep Learning Architectures
7
Section 3: Other Methods and Conclusion

Conclusions and Other Approaches

In this book, we have learned about various forms of architectures for deep learning, and various techniques and methods, ranging from manual feature extraction to the variational Bayesian framework. One-shot learning is a particularly active field of research as it focuses on building a type of machine consciousness more closely based on human neural abilities. With advancements made in the deep learning community over the past 5 years, we can at least say that we are on the path to developing a machine that can learn multiple tasks at once, just as a human can. In this chapter, we will see what other alternatives there are to one-shot learning, and discuss other approaches that haven't been explored in depth in this book.

The following topics will be covered:

  • Recent advancements
  • Related fields
  • Applications
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