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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

1. Principles of autoencoders

In its simplest form, an autoencoder will learn the representation or code by trying to copy the input to output. However, using an autoencoder is not as simple as copying the input to output. Otherwise, the neural network would not be able to uncover the hidden structure in the input distribution.

An autoencoder will encode the input distribution into a low-dimensional tensor, which usually takes the form of a vector. This will approximate the hidden structure that is commonly referred to as the latent representation, code, or vector. This process constitutes the encoding part. The latent vector will then be decoded by the decoder part to recover the original input.

As a result of the latent vector being a low-dimensional compressed representation of the input distribution, it should be expected that the output recovered by the decoder can only approximate the input. The dissimilarity between the input and the output can be measured...