Mission

The book presents more than 20 working deep neural networks coded in Python using Keras, a modular neural network library that runs on top of either Google's TensorFlow or Lisa Lab's Theano backends.

The reader is introduced step by step to supervised learning algorithms such as simple linear regression, classical multilayer perceptron, and more sophisticated deep convolutional networks and generative adversarial networks. In addition, the book covers unsupervised learning algorithms such as autoencoders and generative networks. Recurrent networks and long short-term memory (LSTM) networks are also explained in detail. The book goes on to cover the Keras functional API and how to customize Keras in case the reader's use case is not covered by Keras's extensive functionality. It also looks at larger, more complex systems composed of the building blocks covered previously. The book concludes with an introduction to deep reinforcement learning and how it can be used to build game playing AIs.

Practical applications include code for the classification of news articles into predefined categories, syntactic analysis of texts, sentiment analysis, synthetic generation of texts, and parts of speech annotation. Image processing is also explored, with recognition of handwritten digit images, classification of images into different categories, and advanced object recognition with related image annotations. An example of identification of salient points for face detection will be also provided. Sound analysis comprises recognition of discrete speeches from multiple speakers. Reinforcement learning is used to build a deep Q-learning network capable of playing games autonomously.

Experiments are the essence of the book. Each net is augmented by multiple variants that progressively improve the learning performance by changing the input parameters, the shape of the network, loss functions, and algorithms used for optimizations. Several comparisons between training on CPUs and GPUs are also provided.