Deep Learning for Beginners

This is the code repository for Deep Learning for Beginners, published by Packt.

A beginner's guide to getting up and running with deep learning from scratch using Python

What is this book about?

With information on the web exponentially increasing, it has become more difficult than ever to navigate through everything to find reliable content that will help you get started with deep learning. This book is designed to help you if you’re a beginner looking to work on deep learning and build deep learning models from scratch, and already have the basic mathematical and programming knowledge required to get started.

The book begins with a basic overview of machine learning, guiding you through setting up popular Python frameworks. You will also understand how to prepare data by cleaning and preprocessing it for deep learning, and gradually go on to explore neural networks. A dedicated section will give you insights into the working of neural networks by helping you get hands-on with training single and multiple layers of neurons. Later, you will cover popular neural network architectures such as CNNs, RNNs, AEs, VAEs, and GANs with the help of simple examples, and you will even build models from scratch. At the end of each chapter, you will find a question and answer section to help you test what you’ve learned through the course of the book.

By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with deep learning concepts and have the knowledge you need to use specific algorithms with various tools for different tasks.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Implement RNNs and Long short-term memory for image classification and Natural Language Processing tasks
• Explore the role of CNNs in computer vision and signal processing
• Understand the ethical implications of deep learning modeling
• Understand the mathematical terminology associated with deep learning
• Code a GAN and a VAE to generate images from a learned latent space
• Implement visualization techniques to compare AEs and VAEs

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders.

The code will look like the following:

from sklearn import preprocessing
le = preprocessing.LabelEncoder()
print(sorted(list(set(mnist.target))))

le.fit(sorted(list(set(mnist.target))))

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for aspiring data scientists and deep learning engineers who want to get started with the fundamentals of deep learning and neural networks. Although no prior knowledge of deep learning or machine learning is required, familiarity with linear algebra and Python programming is necessary to get started.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-13).

Software and Hardware List

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Related products

• Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - Second Edition [Packt] [Amazon]

• Applied Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Self-Driving Cars [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Dr. Pablo Rivas is an assistant professor of computer science at Baylor University in Texas. He worked in industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. He is a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, and SIAM. He was formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center performing research. He is an ally of women in technology, a deep learning evangelist, machine learning ethicist, and a proponent of the democratization of machine learning and artificial intelligence in general. He teaches machine learning and deep learning. Dr. Rivas is a published author and all his papers are related to machine learning, computer vision, and machine learning ethics. Dr. Rivas prefers Vim to Emacs and spaces to tabs.