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Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Quick Start Guide A practical guide to building neural networks using Microsoft's open source deep learning framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802993
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with CNTK FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Neural Networks with CNTK 3. Getting Data into Your Neural Network 4. Validating Model Performance 5. Working with Images 6. Working with Time Series Data 7. Deploying Models to Production 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Improving the model

You will quickly learn that building and training neural networks takes more than one attempt. Usually, the first version of your model will not work as well as you hope. It requires quite a bit of experimentation to come up with a great model.

A good neural network starts with a great dataset. In nearly all cases, better performance is achieved by using a proper dataset. Many data scientists will tell you that they spend about 80% of their time working on a good dataset. As with all computer software, if you put garbage in, you will get garbage out.

Even with a good dataset, you still need to spend quite some time to build and train different models before you get the performance you're after. So, let's see what you can do to improve your model after you've built it for the first time.

After you've trained the model for the first time,...

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