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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

The MNIST dataset


The Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) dataset is a very well-known dataset of handwritten digits {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} used to train and test classification models.

A classification model is a model that predicts the probabilities of observing a class, given an input.

Training is the task of learning the parameters to fit the model to the data as well as we can so that for any input image, the correct label is predicted. For this training task, the MNIST dataset contains 60,000 images with a target label (a number between 0 and 9) for each example.

To validate that the training is efficient and to decide when to stop the training, we usually split the training dataset into two datasets: 80% to 90% of the images are used for training, while the remaining 10-20% of images will not be presented to the algorithm for training but to validate that the model generalizes well on unobserved data.

There is a separate dataset that the algorithm should never...