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Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - Second Edition

By : Rowel Atienza
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Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - Second Edition

By: Rowel Atienza

Overview of this book

Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras, Second Edition is a completely updated edition of the bestselling guide to the advanced deep learning techniques available today. Revised for TensorFlow 2.x, this edition introduces you to the practical side of deep learning with new chapters on unsupervised learning using mutual information, object detection (SSD), and semantic segmentation (FCN and PSPNet), further allowing you to create your own cutting-edge AI projects. Using Keras as an open-source deep learning library, the book features hands-on projects that show you how to create more effective AI with the most up-to-date techniques. Starting with an overview of multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), the book then introduces more cutting-edge techniques as you explore deep neural network architectures, including ResNet and DenseNet, and how to create autoencoders. You will then learn about GANs, and how they can unlock new levels of AI performance. Next, you’ll discover how a variational autoencoder (VAE) is implemented, and how GANs and VAEs have the generative power to synthesize data that can be extremely convincing to humans. You'll also learn to implement DRL such as Deep Q-Learning and Policy Gradient Methods, which are critical to many modern results in AI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

6. Policy Gradient methods using Keras

The four policy gradient methods (Algorithm 10.2.1 to Algorithm 10.5.1) discussed in the previous sections use identical policy and value network models. The policy and value networks in Figure 10.2.1 to Figure 10.4.1 have the same configurations. The four policy gradient methods differ only in:

  • Performance and value gradient formulas
  • Training strategy

In this section, we will discuss the implementation in tf.keras of the common routines of Algorithm 10.2.1 to Algorithm 10.5.1 in one code.

But before discussing the implementation, let's briefly explore the training environment.

Unlike Q-learning, policy gradient methods are applicable to both discrete and continuous action spaces. In our example, we'll demonstrate the four policy gradient methods on a continuous action space...