Advanced Deep Learning with Python

Gain expertise in advanced deep learning domains such as neural networks, meta-learning, graph neural networks, and memory augmented neural networks using the Python ecosystem

Key Features

• Get to grips with building faster and more robust deep learning architectures
• Investigate and train convolutional neural network (CNN) models with GPU-accelerated libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch
• Apply deep neural networks (DNNs) to computer vision problems, NLP, and GANs

Book Description

In order to build robust deep learning systems, you'll need to understand everything from how neural networks work to training CNN models. In this book, you'll discover newly developed deep learning models, methodologies used in the domain, and their implementation based on areas of application.

You'll start by understanding the building blocks and the math behind neural networks, and then move on to CNNs and their advanced applications in computer vision. You'll also learn to apply the most popular CNN architectures in object detection and image segmentation. Further on, you'll focus on variational autoencoders and GANs. You'll then use neural networks to extract sophisticated vector representations of words, before going on to cover various types of recurrent networks, such as LSTM and GRU. You'll even explore the attention mechanism to process sequential data without the help of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Later, you'll use graph neural networks for processing structured data, along with covering meta-learning, which allows you to train neural networks with fewer training samples. Finally, you'll understand how to apply deep learning to autonomous vehicles.

By the end of this book, you'll have mastered key deep learning concepts and the different applications of deep learning models in the real world.

What you will learn

• Cover advanced and state-of-the-art neural network architectures
• Understand the theory and math behind neural networks
• Train DNNs and apply them to modern deep learning problems
• Use CNNs for object detection and image segmentation
• Implement generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders to generate new images
• Solve natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as machine translation, using sequence-to-sequence models
• Understand DL techniques, such as meta-learning and graph neural networks

Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists, deep learning engineers and researchers, and AI developers who want to further their knowledge of deep learning and build innovative and unique deep learning projects. Anyone looking to get to grips with advanced use cases and methodologies adopted in the deep learning domain using real-world examples will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of deep learning concepts and working knowledge of the Python programming language is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. The Nuts and Bolts of Neural Networks
2. Understanding Convolutional Networks
3. Advanced Convolutional Networks
4. Object Detection and Image Segmentation
5. Generative Models
6. Language Modelling
7. Understanding Recurrent Networks
8. Sequence-to-Sequence Models and Attention
9. Emerging Neural Network Designs
10. Meta Learning
11. Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicles

Ivan Vasilev started working on the first open source Java deep learning library with GPU support in 2013. The library was acquired by a German company, where he continued to develop it. He has also worked as a machine learning engineer and researcher in the area of medical image classification and segmentation with deep neural networks. Since 2017, he has been focusing on financial machine learning. He is working on a Python-based platform that provides the infrastructure to rapidly experiment with different machine learning algorithms for algorithmic trading. Ivan holds an MSc degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Sofia, St. Kliment Ohridski.