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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

Application of word embeddings


Word embeddings capture the meaning of the words. They translate a discrete input into an input that can be processed by neural nets.

Embeddings are the start of many applications linked to language:

  • Generating texts, as we'll see in the next chapter

  • Translation systems, where input and target sentences are sequences of words and whose embeddings can be processed by end-to-end neural nets (Chapter 8, Translating and Explaining with Encoding – decoding Networks)

  • Sentiment analysis (Chapter 5, Analyzing Sentiment with a Bidirectional LSTM)

  • Zero-shot learning in computer vision; the structure in the word language enables us to find classes for which no training images exist

  • Image annotation/captioning

  • Neuro-psychiatry, for which neural nets can predict with 100% accuracy some psychiatric disorders in human beings

  • Chatbots, or answering questions from a user (Chapter 9, Selecting Relevant Inputs or Memories with the Mechanism of Attention)

As with words, the principle of...