11. Generative Models

Overview

This chapter introduces you to generative models—their components, how they function, and what they can do. You will start with generative long short-term memory (LSTM) networks and how to use them to generate new text. You will then learn about generative adversarial networks (GANs) and how to create new data, before moving on to deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs) and creating your own images.

By the end of the chapter, you will know how to effectively use different types of GANs and generate various types of new data.