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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

Sequence-to-sequence networks for natural language processing


Rule-based systems are being replaced by end-to-end neural networks because of their increase in performance.

An end-to-end neural network means the network directly infers all possible rules by example, without knowing the underlying rules, such as syntax and conjugation; the words (or the characters) are directly fed into the network as input. The same is true for the output format, which can be directly the word indexes themselves. The architecture of the network takes care of learning the rules with its coefficients.

The architecture of choice for such end-to-end encoding-decoding networks applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP), is the sequence-to-sequence network, displayed in the following figure:

Word indexes are converted into their continuous multi-dimensional values in the embedded space with a lookup table. This conversion, presented in Chapter 3, Encoding Word into Vector is a crucial step to encode the discrete...