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You're reading from Hands-On Neural Networks Learn how to build and train your first neural network model using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788992596

Length 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Keras

Concepts

Neural Networks

Authors (2):

Leonardo De Marchi

Laura Mitchell

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Supervised Learning

3. Neural Network Fundamentals

4. Section 2: Deep Learning Applications

5. Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Processing

6. Exploiting Text Embedding

7. Working with RNNs

8. Reusing Neural Networks with Transfer Learning

9. Section 3: Advanced Applications

10. Working with Generative Algorithms

11. Implementing Autoencoders

12. Deep Belief Networks

13. Reinforcement Learning

14. Whats Next?

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Environment setup

There are only a few viable programming language options when creating ML software. The most popular ones are Python and R, but Scala is also quite popular. There are other languages, but the better ones in terms of use in ML are Julia, JavaScript, Java, and a few others. In this book, we will be using Python only. The motivation behind this choice is its widespread adoption, its simplicity of use, and the vast ecosystem of libraries that are possible to use.

In particular, we will be using Python 3.7 and a few of its following libraries:

numpy: For fast vectorized numerical computation
scipy: Built on top of numpy, with many mathematical functionalities
pandas: For data manipulation
scikit-learn: The main Python library for ML
tensorflow: The engine that powers our deep learning algorithms
keras: The library we are going to use to develop our deep learning...

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Authors (2)

Leonardo De Marchi

Leonardo De Marchi is an international speaker, author and consultant. He holds a masters in artificial intelligence (AI) and has worked as a data scientist in the sporting world, with clients such as New York Knicks, Manchester United. He now works as a head of data scientist at Badoo, the largest dating site with over 400 million users. He is also the lead instructor at ideai.io, a company specialized in Machine Learning trainings. With Ideai he provides technical and managerial training to large institutions and dynamic startups. He is also a contractor for the European Commission.

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Laura Mitchell

Laura Mitchell graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and, since then, has gained over 12 years' experience in the tech and data science space. She is currently lead data scientist at Badoo, which is the largest online dating site in the world with over 400 million users worldwide. Laura has hands-on experience in the delivery of projects such as NLP, image classification, and recommender systems, from initial conception through to production. She has a passion for learning new technologies and keeping up to date with industry trends.

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