Immediately we’re happy to announce the launch of Deep Studying with R, 2nd Version. In comparison with the primary version, the e book is over a 3rd longer, with greater than 75% new content material. It’s not a lot an up to date version as a complete new e book.
This e book reveals you tips on how to get began with deep studying in R, even when you have no background in arithmetic or knowledge science. The e book covers:
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Deep studying from first ideas
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Picture classification and picture segmentation
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Time collection forecasting
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Textual content classification and machine translation
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Textual content era, neural model switch, and picture era
Solely modest R data is assumed; every thing else is defined from the bottom up with examples that plainly show the mechanics. Find out about gradients and backpropogation—through the use of tf$GradientTape() to rediscover Earth’s gravity acceleration fixed (9.8 (m/s^2)). Be taught what a keras Layer is—by implementing one from scratch utilizing solely base R. Be taught the distinction between batch normalization and layer normalization, what layer_lstm() does, what occurs once you name match(), and so forth—all by means of implementations in plain R code.
Each part within the e book has obtained main updates. The chapters on laptop imaginative and prescient achieve a full walk-through of tips on how to method a picture segmentation process. Sections on picture classification have been up to date to make use of {tfdatasets} and Keras preprocessing layers, demonstrating not simply tips on how to compose an environment friendly and quick knowledge pipeline, but additionally tips on how to adapt it when your dataset requires it.
The chapters on textual content fashions have been fully reworked. Discover ways to preprocess uncooked textual content for deep studying, first by implementing a textual content vectorization layer utilizing solely base R, earlier than utilizing keras::layer_text_vectorization() in 9 alternative ways. Find out about embedding layers by implementing a customized layer_positional_embedding(). Be taught concerning the transformer structure by implementing a customized layer_transformer_encoder() and layer_transformer_decoder(). And alongside the way in which put all of it collectively by coaching textual content fashions—first, a movie-review sentiment classifier, then, an English-to-Spanish translator, and eventually, a movie-review textual content generator.
Generative fashions have their very own devoted chapter, overlaying not solely textual content era, but additionally variational auto encoders (VAE), generative adversarial networks (GAN), and elegance switch.
Alongside every step of the way in which, you’ll discover sprinkled intuitions distilled from expertise and empirical remark about what works, what doesn’t, and why. Solutions to questions like: when do you have to use bag-of-words as a substitute of a sequence structure? When is it higher to make use of a pretrained mannequin as a substitute of coaching a mannequin from scratch? When do you have to use GRU as a substitute of LSTM? When is it higher to make use of separable convolution as a substitute of standard convolution? When coaching is unstable, what troubleshooting steps do you have to take? What are you able to do to make coaching sooner?
The e book shuns magic and hand-waving, and as a substitute pulls again the curtain on each essential basic idea wanted to use deep studying. After working by means of the fabric within the e book, you’ll not solely know tips on how to apply deep studying to widespread duties, but additionally have the context to go and apply deep studying to new domains and new issues.
Deep Studying with R, Second Version
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yr = {2022}
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