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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

Coalesced transpose via shared memory, NVIDIA parallel for all


When the dimension of the data is not divisible into a block size times a grid size, threads dealing with data at the border will execute faster than other threads, and the kernel code has to be written in a way to check for out-of-bounds memory accesses.

When programming in parallel, race conditions, as well as memory bank conflicts in shared memory, and data that cannot stay local to the thread in the available registrars are some new pains to check. Coalescing global memory accesses is by far the most critical aspect of achieving good performance. The NVIDIA® Nsight™ tool will help you develop, debug, and profile the code that executes on CPU and GPU.

Model conversions

When a model is saved, the resulting data is simply a list of arrays, that is, weight vectors (for biases) and matrices (for multiplications) and a name for each layer. It is quite simple to convert a model from one framework to another: it consists of loading...