Deep Learning with Python

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Deep Learning

   • Nikhil Ketkar

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3. Machine Learning Fundamentals

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4. Feed Forward Neural Networks

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5. Introduction to Theano

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6. Convolutional Neural Networks

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7. Recurrent Neural Networks

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8. Introduction to Keras

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9. Stochastic Gradient Descent

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10. Automatic Differentiation

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11. Introduction to GPUs

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12. Introduction to Tensorflow

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13. Introduction to PyTorch

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14. Regularization Techniques

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15. Training Deep Learning Models

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16. Back Matter

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Discover the practical aspects of implementing deep-learning solutions using the rich Python ecosystem. This book bridges the gap between the academic state-of-the-art and the industry state-of-the-practice by introducing you to deep learning frameworks such as Keras, Theano, and Caffe. The practicalities of these frameworks is often acquired by practitioners by reading source code, manuals, and posting questions on community forums, which tends to be a slow and a painful process. Deep Learning with Python allows you to ramp up to such practical know-how in a short period of time and focus more on the domain, models, and algorithms.


This book briefly covers the mathematical prerequisites and fundamentals of deep learning, making this book a good starting point for software developers who want to get started in deep learning. A brief survey of deep learning architectures is also included.


Deep Learning with Python alsointroduces you to key concepts of automatic differentiation and GPU computation which, while not central to deep learning, are critical when it comes to conducting large scale experiments. 


What You Will Learn 

• Leverage deep learning frameworks in Python namely, Keras, Theano, and Caffe 
  
• Gain the fundamentals of deep learning with mathematical prerequisites 
  
• Discover the practical considerations of large scale experiments 
  
• Take deep learning models to production
  

Who This Book Is For


Software developers who want to try out deep learning as a practical solution to a particular problem. Software developers in a data science team who want to take deep learning models developed by data scientists to production.

• Deep Learning
• Python
• Keras
• Theano
• Caffe
• Deep Learning Architecture
• GPU

• Bangalore, India

  Nikhil Ketkar

Nikhil S. Ketkar currently leads the Machine Learning Platform team at Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University. Following that he conducted postdoctoral research at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which was followed by a brief stint in high frequency trading at Transmaket in Chicago. More recently he led the data mining team in Guavus, a startup doing big data analytics in the telecom domain and Indix, a startup doing data science in the e-commerce domain. His research interests include machine learning and graph theory.

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