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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

4. Conclusion

In this chapter, we've covered the principles of VAEs. As we learned in the principles of VAEs, they bear a resemblance to GANs from the point of view of both attempts to create synthetic outputs from latent space. However, it can be noticed that the VAE networks are much simpler and easier to train compared to GANs. It's becoming clear how CVAE and -VAE are similar in concept to conditional GANs and disentangled representation GANs, respectively.

VAEs have an intrinsic mechanism to disentangle the latent vectors. Therefore, building a -VAE is straightforward. We should note, however, that interpretable and disentangled codes are important in building intelligent agents.

In the next chapter, we're going to focus on reinforcement learning. Without any prior data, an agent learns by interacting with the world around it. We'll discuss how the agent can be rewarded for correct actions, and punished for the wrong ones.