Month: March 2020

Hands-On Deep Learning with R

Why Deep Learning with R?
Deep learning enables efficient and accurate learning from data. Developers working with R will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to deep learning. The book provides a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up-and-running, and productive in no time. You will explore and implement deep learning to solve various real-world problems using modern R libraries such as TensorFlow, MXNet, H2O, and Deepnet.

Who this book is for?

This book is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, and deep learning developers who are familiar with machine learning and are looking to enhance their knowledge of deep learning using practical examples. Anyone interested in increasing the efficiency of their machine learning applications and exploring various options in R will also find this book useful. Basic knowledge of machine learning techniques and working knowledge of the R programming language is expected.

What you will learn:

Design a feedforward neural network to see how the activation function computes an output
Create an image recognition model using convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
Prepare data, decide hidden layers and neurons and train your model with the backpropagation algorithm
Apply text cleaning techniques to remove uninformative text using NLP
Build, train, and evaluate a GAN model for face generation
Understand the concept and implementation of reinforcement learning in R