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Deep Learning Essentials

You're reading from Deep Learning Essentials Your hands-on guide to the fundamentals of deep learning and neural network modeling

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785880360

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Caffe

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Deep Learning

Authors (3):

Di

Jianing Wei

Anurag Bhardwaj

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Why Deep Learning? FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Yourself Ready for Deep Learning

3. Getting Started with Neural Networks

4. Deep Learning in Computer Vision

5. NLP - Vector Representation

6. Advanced Natural Language Processing

7. Multimodality

8. Deep Reinforcement Learning

9. Deep Learning Hacks

10. Deep Learning Trends

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Practical examples

In this section, we provide a practical problem that can be solved using a neural network. We will introduce the problems and build our neural network model using TensorFlow to solve the problems.

TensorFlow setup and key concepts

We recommend readers follow the instructions at https://www.tensorflow.org/install/ to install TensorFlow. We will use Python as our programming language. There are mainly three key concepts that are used in the code sample:

Tensor: Tensor is the central data unit in TensorFlow. We may think of it as a matrix of any number of dimensions. The entries within the tensor are primitive values. For example, see the following:

5 is a scalar and a rank 0 tensor
[[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5]] is a matrix with shape [2, 3] and a rank 2 tensor

TensorFlow session: A TensorFlow session encapsulates the control and state of the TensorFlow runtime.
Computation graph: A set of TensorFlow operations that are arranged into a computation graph of nodes. The edges of the graph...

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Authors (3)

Di

Di

Wei Di is a data scientist with years of experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is passionate about creating smart and scalable intelligent solutions that can impact millions of individuals and empower successful business. Currently, she works a staff data scientist in LinkedIn. She was previously associated with eBay Human Language Technology team and eBay Research Labs. Prior to that, she was with ancestry, working on large-scale data mining in the areas of record linkage. She received her PhD from Purdue University in 2011.

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Jianing Wei

Jianing Wei

Jianing Wei is a senior software engineer at Google Research. He works in the area of computer vision and computational imaging. Prior to joining Google in 2013, Jianing worked at Sony US Research Center for four years in the area of 3D computer vision and image processing. Jianing obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2010.

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Anurag Bhardwaj

Anurag Bhardwaj

Anurag Bhardwaj currently leads data science efforts at Wiser Solutions, where he focuses on structuring large scale eCommerce inventory. He is particularly interested in using machine learning to solve problems on product category classification, product matching and various related problems in eCommerce. Previously, he worked on image understanding at eBay Research Labs. Anurag received his PhD and MS from the State University of New York at Buffalo and holds a BTech in computer engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

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