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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

Dataset


Before we explain the model part, let us start by processing the text corpus by creating the vocabulary and integrating the text with it so that each word is represented as an integer. As a dataset, any text corpus can be used, such as Wikipedia or web articles, or posts from social networks such as Twitter. Frequently used datasets include PTB, text8, BBC, IMDB, and WMT datasets.

In this chapter, we use the text8 corpus. It consists of a pre-processed version of the first 100 million characters from a Wikipedia dump. Let us first download the corpus:

wget http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text8.zip -O /sharedfiles/text8.gz
gzip -d /sharedfiles/text8.gz -f

Now, we construct the vocabulary and replace the rare words with tokens for UNKNOWN. Let us start by reading the data into a list of strings:

  1. Read the data into a list of strings:

    words = []
    with open('data/text8') as fin:
      for line in fin:
        words += [w for w in line.strip().lower().split()]
    
    data_size = len(words)  
    print('Data size:...