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R Deep Learning Projects

You're reading from   R Deep Learning Projects Master the techniques to design and develop neural network models in R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478403
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Our first examples


Let's begin with a few simple examples to understand what is going on. 

For some of us, it's very easy to get tempted to try the shiniest algorithms and do hyper-parameter optimization instead of the less glamorous step-by-step understanding. 

A simple 2D example

Let's develop our intuition of how the autoencoder works with a simple two-dimensional example. 

We first generate 10,000 points coming from a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance 1:

library(MASS)
library(keras)
Sigma <- matrix(c(1,0,0,1),2,2)
n_points <- 10000
df <- mvrnorm(n=n_points, rep(0,2), Sigma)
df <- as.data.frame(df)

The distribution of the values should look as follows:

Distribution of the variable V1 we just generated; the variable V2 looks fairly similar.

Distribution of the variables V1 and V2 we generated. 

Let's spice things up a bit and add some outliers to the mixture. In many fraud applications, the fraud rate is about 1–5%, so we generate 1% of our samples as coming from a normal...

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