{"product_id":"9781786463050","title":"Deep Learning with Theano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDevelop deep neural networks in Theano with practical code examples for image classification, machine translation, reinforcement agents, or generative models.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout This Book\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn Theano basics and evaluate your mathematical expressions faster and in an efficient manner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn the design patterns of deep neural architectures to build efficient and powerful networks on your datasets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApply your knowledge to concrete fields such as image classification, object detection, chatbots, machine translation, reinforcement agents, or generative models.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003cp\u003eThis book is indented to provide a full overview of deep learning. From the beginner in deep learning and artificial intelligence, to the data scientist who wants to become familiar with Theano and its supporting libraries, or have an extended understanding of deep neural nets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome basic skills in Python programming and computer science will help, as well as skills in elementary algebra and calculus.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGet familiar with Theano and deep learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvide examples in supervised, unsupervised, generative, or reinforcement learning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscover the main principles for designing efficient deep learning nets: convolutions, residual connections, and recurrent connections.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse Theano on real-world computer vision datasets, such as for digit classification and image classification.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtend the use of Theano to natural language processing tasks, for chatbots or machine translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCover artificial intelligence-driven strategies to enable a robot to solve games or learn from an environment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenerate synthetic data that looks real with generative modeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecome familiar with Lasagne and Keras, two frameworks built on top of Theano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIn Detail\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.\u003c\/p\u003eStyle and approach\u003cp\u003eIt is an easy-to-follow example book that teaches you how to perform fast, efficient computations in Python. Starting with the very basics-NumPy, installing Theano, this book will take you to the smooth journey of implementing Theano for advanced computations for machine learning and deep learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140142481648,"sku":"9781786463050","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786463050_p0.jpg?v=1763729718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786463050","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}