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Deep Learning with Theano

You're reading from   Deep Learning with Theano Perform large-scale numerical and scientific computations efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465825
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christopher Bourez Christopher Bourez
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Theano Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Classifying Handwritten Digits with a Feedforward Network 3. Encoding Word into Vector 4. Generating Text with a Recurrent Neural Net 5. Analyzing Sentiment with a Bidirectional LSTM 6. Locating with Spatial Transformer Networks 7. Classifying Images with Residual Networks 8. Translating and Explaining with Encoding – decoding Networks 9. Selecting Relevant Inputs or Memories with the Mechanism of Attention 10. Predicting Times Sequences with Advanced RNN 11. Learning from the Environment with Reinforcement 12. Learning Features with Unsupervised Generative Networks 13. Extending Deep Learning with Theano Index

Chapter 2. Classifying Handwritten Digits with a Feedforward Network

The first chapter presented Theano as a compute engine, with its different functions and specificities. With this knowledge, we'll go through an example and introduce some of the main concepts of deep learning, building three neural networks and training them on the problem of handwritten digit classification.

Deep learning is a field of machine learning in which layers of modules are stacked on top of each of other: this chapter introduces a simple single-linear-layer model, then adds a second layer on top of it to create a multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and last uses multiple convolutional layers to create a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

In the meantime, this chapter recaps the basic machine learning concepts, such as overfitting, validation, and loss analysis, for those who are not familiar with data science:

  • Small image classification
  • Handwritten digit recognition challenge
  • Layer design to build a neural...
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