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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

Improved GANs

Since the introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 2014[1], their popularity has rapidly increased. GANs have proven to be a useful generative model that can synthesize new data that looks real. Many of the research papers in deep learning that followed proposed measures to address the difficulties and limitations of the original GAN.

As we discussed in previous chapters, GANs can be notoriously difficult to train, and are prone to mode collapse. Mode collapse is a situation where the generator is producing outputs that look the same even though the loss functions are already optimized. In the context of MNIST digits, with mode collapse, the generator may only be producing digits 4 and 9 since they look similar. The Wasserstein GAN (WGAN)[2] addressed these problems by arguing that stable training and mode collapse can be avoided by simply replacing the GAN loss function based on Wasserstein 1, also known as the Earth Mover's Distance...