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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

7. Performance evaluation of policy gradient methods

The 4 policy gradients methods were evaluated by training the agent for 1,000 episodes. We define 1 training session as 1,000 episodes of training. The first performance metric is measured by accumulating the number of times the car reached the flag in 1,000 episodes.

In this metric, A2C reached the flag the greatest number of times, followed by REINFORCE with baseline, Actor-Critic, and REINFORCE. The use of baseline or critic accelerates the learning. Note that these are training sessions, where the agent is continuously improving its performance. There were cases in the experiments where the agent's performance did not improve with time.

The second performance metric is based on the requirement that MountainCarContinuous-v0 is considered solved if the total reward per episode is at least 90.0. From the 5 training sessions per method, we selected 1 training session with the highest total reward for the last 100 episodes...