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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

Theano Op in Python for CPU


As a mathematical compilation engine, Theano's purpose is to compile a graph of computations in an optimal way for a target platform.

The development of new operators is possible in Python or C for compilation either on the CPU or GPU.

First, we address the simplest case, in Python for CPU, which will enable you to add new operations very easily and quickly.

To fix the ideas, let's implement a simple affine operator that performs the affine transformation a * x + b, given x as the input.

The operator is defined by a class deriving from the generic theano.Op class:

import theano, numpy

class AXPBOp(theano.Op):
    """
    This creates an Op that takes x to a*x+b.
    """
    __props__ = ("a", "b")

    def __init__(self, a, b):
        self.a = a
        self.b = b
        super(AXPBOp, self).__init__()

    def make_node(self, x):
        x = theano.tensor.as_tensor_variable(x)
        return theano.Apply(self, [x], [x.type()])

    def perform(self, node, inputs...