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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. Wasserstein GAN

As we've mentioned before, GANs are notoriously hard to train. The opposing objectives of the two networks, the discriminator and the generator, can easily cause training instability. The discriminator attempts to correctly classify the fake data from the real data. Meanwhile, the generator tries its best to trick the discriminator. If the discriminator learns faster than the generator, the generator parameters will fail to optimize. On the other hand, if the discriminator learns more slowly, then the gradients may vanish before reaching the generator. In the worst case, if the discriminator is unable to converge, the generator is not going to be able to get any useful feedback.

WGAN argued that a GAN's inherent instability is due to its loss function, which is based on the Jensen-Shannon (JS) distance. In a GAN, the objective of the generator is to learn how to transform from one source distribution (for example, noise) to an estimated target...