Hands-On Neural Networks: Learn how to build and train your first neural network model using Python

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Explore neural network architecture and understand how it functions

Learn algorithms to solve common problems using backpropagation and perceptrons

Understand how to apply neural networks to applications with the help of useful illustrations

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Neural networks play a very important role in deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI), with applications in a wide variety of domains, right from medical diagnosis, to financial forecasting, and even machine diagnostics. Hands-On Neural Networks is designed to guide you through learning about neural networks in a practical way. The book will get you started by giving you a brief introduction to perceptron networks. You will then gain insights into machine learning and also understand what the future of AI could look like. Next, you will study how embeddings can be used to process textual data and the role of long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) in helping you solve common natural language processing (NLP) problems. The later chapters will demonstrate how you can implement advanced concepts including transfer learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs), autoencoders, and reinforcement learning. Finally, you can look forward to further content on the latest advancements in the field of neural networks. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to build, train, and optimize your own neural network model that can be used to provide predictable solutions.

What you will learn

Learn how to train a network by using backpropagation

Discover how to load and transform images for use in neural networks

Study how neural networks can be applied to a varied set of applications

Solve common challenges faced in neural network development

Understand transfer learning concepts to solve tasks using Keras and Visual Geometry Group (VGG) network

Get up to speed with advanced and complex deep learning concepts such as LSTMs and natural language processing (NLP)

Explore innovative algorithms including GANs and deep reinforcement learning

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Al Oct 11, 2019

Excellent and comprehensive insight! I love the author's big picture view and how it translated it in simple python code.

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Saadallah Kassir Jan 12, 2021

- The topics discussed are interesting and useful, although some chapters need additional explanation. Some of the concepts are indeed discussed at a very high level.- The notation may be a bit hard to follow as variables are sometimes undefined. Some terminology is not technically correct, e.g., confusion between MSE and RMSE, with a confusing expression.- The code snippets may be confusing, as some instructions may be irrelevant, e.g., instructions defining variables that are never used.- The book is printed in grayscale, which makes it harder to read the figures, although the authors indicated that all the figures are available in color online.- Several typos/missing words make some paragraphs hard to read.Overall, I like the idea of the book, but it may be worth waiting for the issue of a new edition, as several errors may be confusing to the reader.

Hands-On Neural Networks: Learn how to build and train your first neural network model using Python

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