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Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
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Deep Learning with Theano

By: Christopher Bourez

Overview of this book

This book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU. The book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy. The book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym. At the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Deep Learning with Theano
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter presented a very common way to transform discrete inputs in particular texts into numerical embeddings, in the case of natural language processing.

The technique to train these word representations with neural networks does not require us to label the data and infers its embedding directly from natural texts. Such training is named unsupervised learning.

One of the main challenges with deep learning is to convert input and output signals into representations that can be processed by nets, in particular vectors of floats. Then, neural nets give all the tools to process these vectors, to learn, decide, classify, reason, or generate.

In the next chapters, we'll use these embeddings to work with texts and more advanced neural networks. The first application presented in the next chapter is about automatic text generation.