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R Deep Learning Essentials

By : Hodnett, Wiley

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R Deep Learning Essentials

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By: Hodnett, Wiley

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Overview of this book

Deep learning is a powerful subset of machine learning that is very successful in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). This second edition of R Deep Learning Essentials will open the gates for you to enter the world of neural networks by building powerful deep learning models using the R ecosystem. This book will introduce you to the basic principles of deep learning and teach you to build a neural network model from scratch. As you make your way through the book, you will explore deep learning libraries, such as Keras, MXNet, and TensorFlow, and create interesting deep learning models for a variety of tasks and problems, including structured data, computer vision, text data, anomaly detection, and recommendation systems. You’ll cover advanced topics, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), transfer learning, and large-scale deep learning in the cloud. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the theoretical concepts of deep learning projects, such as model optimization, overfitting, and data augmentation, together with other advanced topics. By the end of this book, you will be fully prepared and able to implement deep learning concepts in your research work or projects.

Preface

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Getting Started with Deep Learning

What is deep learning?

A conceptual overview of neural networks

Deep neural networks

Some common myths about deep learning

Setting up your R environment

Summary

Training a Prediction Model

Neural networks in R

The problem of overfitting data – the consequences explained

Use case – building and applying a neural network

Summary

Deep Learning Fundamentals

Building neural networks from scratch in R

Using regularization to overcome overfitting

Use case – improving out-of-sample model performance using dropout

Summary

Training Deep Prediction Models

Getting started with deep feedforward neural networks

Activation functions

Introduction to the MXNet deep learning library

Use case – using MXNet for classification and regression

Summary

Image Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks

CNNs

Convolutional layers

Image classification using the MXNet library

References/further reading

Summary

Tuning and Optimizing Models

Evaluation metrics and evaluating performance

Data preparation

Data augmentation

Tuning hyperparameters

Use case—using LIME for interpretability

Summary

Natural Language Processing Using Deep Learning

Document classification

Advanced deep learning text classification

Summary

Deep Learning Models Using TensorFlow in R

Introduction to the TensorFlow library

TensorFlow models

TensorFlow estimators and TensorFlow runs packages

Summary

Anomaly Detection and Recommendation Systems

What is unsupervised learning?

How do auto-encoders work?

Training an auto-encoder in R

Using auto-encoders for anomaly detection

Use case – collaborative filtering

Summary

Running Deep Learning Models in the Cloud

Setting up a local computer for deep learning

Using AWS for deep learning

Using Azure for deep learning

Using Google Cloud for deep learning

Using Paperspace for deep learning

Summary

The Next Level in Deep Learning

Image classification models

Deploying TensorFlow models

Evaluation metrics and evaluating performance

This section will discuss how to set up a deep learning project and what evaluation metrics to select. We will look at how to select evaluation criteria and how to decide when the model is approaching optimal performance. We will also discuss how all deep learning models tend to overfit and how to manage the bias/variance tradeoff. This will give guidelines on what to do when models have low accuracy.

Types of evaluation metric

Different evaluation metrics are used for categorization and regression tasks. For categorization, accuracy is the most commonly used evaluation metric. However, accuracy is only valid if the cost of errors is the same for all classes, which is not always...