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Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

You're reading from   Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C# Add powerful neural network capabilities to your C# enterprise applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612011
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A Quick Refresher FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Our First Neural Network Together 3. Decision Trees and Random Forests 4. Face and Motion Detection 5. Training CNNs Using ConvNetSharp 6. Training Autoencoders Using RNNSharp 7. Replacing Back Propagation with PSO 8. Function Optimizations: How and Why 9. Finding Optimal Parameters 10. Object Detection with TensorFlowSharp 11. Time Series Prediction and LSTM Using CNTK 12. GRUs Compared to LSTMs, RNNs, and Feedforward networks 13. Activation Function Timings
14. Function Optimization Reference 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fluent training with the MNIST database

In the following example, we will train our CNN against the MNIST database of images.

To declare a function, use the following code:

private void MnistDemo()
{

Next, download the training and testing datasets with the following command:

var datasets = new DataSets();

Load 100 validation sets with the following command:

if (!datasets.Load(100))
{
return;
}

Now it's time to create the neural network using the Fluent API, as follows:

this._net = FluentNet<double>.Create(24, 24, 1)
.Conv(5, 5, 8).Stride(1).Pad(2)
.Relu()
.Pool(2, 2).Stride(2)
.Conv(5, 5, 16).Stride(1).Pad(2)
.Relu()
.Pool(3, 3).Stride(3)
.FullyConn(10)
.Softmax(10)
.Build();

Create the stochastic gradient descent trainer from the network with the following command:

this._trainer = new SgdTrainer<double>(this._net)
{
LearningRate = 0.01,
BatchSize = 20,
L2Decay = 0.001,
Momentum...
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