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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

Installing and configuring Keras


Keras is a high-level neural network API, written in Python and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano. It was developed to make implementing deep learning models as fast and easy as possible for research and development. You can install Keras easily using conda, as follows:

conda install keras

When writing your Python code, importing Keras will tell you which backend is used:

>>> import keras
Using Theano backend.
Using cuDNN version 5110 on context None
Preallocating 10867/11439 Mb (0.950000) on cuda0
Mapped name None to device cuda0: Tesla K80 (0000:83:00.0)
Mapped name dev0 to device cuda0: Tesla K80 (0000:83:00.0)
Using cuDNN version 5110 on context dev1
Preallocating 10867/11439 Mb (0.950000) on cuda1
Mapped name dev1 to device cuda1: Tesla K80 (0000:84:00.0)

If you have installed Tensorflow, it might not use Theano. To specify which backend to use, write a Keras configuration file, ~/.keras/keras.json:

{
    "epsilon": 1e-07...