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Hands-On Deep Learning with R

You're reading from   Hands-On Deep Learning with R A practical guide to designing, building, and improving neural network models using R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996839
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodger Devine Rodger Devine
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Deep Learning Basics
2. Machine Learning Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up R for Deep Learning 4. Artificial Neural Networks 5. Section 2: Deep Learning Applications
6. CNNs for Image Recognition 7. Multilayer Perceptron for Signal Detection 8. Neural Collaborative Filtering Using Embeddings 9. Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 10. Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Stock Forecasting 11. Generative Adversarial Networks for Faces 12. Section 3: Reinforcement Learning
13. Reinforcement Learning for Gaming 14. Deep Q-Learning for Maze Solving 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Augmenting our neural network with backpropagation

At this point, we have a working neural network. For this simple example, we will add one additional feature of neural networks that can improve performance, which is backpropagation. A neural network can learn to solve a task by multiplying the variable by values so that the variables are weighted as they pass through hidden layers. The backpropagation step allows the model to traverse back through layers and adjust the weights that were learned during previous steps:

  1. In practical terms, this step is quite straightforward to implement. We simply declare that we will use the backpropagation algorithm and indicate the learning rate, which controls how much the weights are adjusted. In general, this learning rate value should be very low.

In the following example, we have to do the following:

  • The threshold value and stepmax value...
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