

File Size: 10717 KB
Print Length: 254 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing; 1 edition (May 30, 2016)
Publication Date: May 30, 2016
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01956B5RQ
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I'm quite pleased with this book, actually. I was a little reluctant initially, fearing that this would be nothing but a simple surface-level overview of how to put together a bunch of pre-existing libraries (ick). Instead, it actually goes into the mathematical derivations and underlying principles of the algorithms (!) and instructs the user on how to build systems from the ground up. I'll likely be using this a lot in the near and distant future as a reference when I have to implement these systems in other languages. The reason I'm not giving it four stars is that I felt it was a little on the thin-side at times. It could easily go into more depth on building computational graphs and doing backprop against them instead of the simple layer/weight setup. I'll go through it again in the near future and may update my review.
I thought this was a very well-written book on Deep Learning (DL). Java is (in my opinion) not the best language for teaching algorithms, but the example code is very readable. Like many DL books, the book focuses a lot on basic concepts and the math derivations behind them, so in that sense it is relatively undifferentiated from these books - however, it is is the only one that does so in Java. This is the only book I have read that has extensive coverage of pre-training (Deep Belief Networks, Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Denoising Autoencoders (DA), and Stacked DAs). Other "standard" networks such as Multilayer Perceptrons, Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks are also covered, about as well as other books I have read. The author provides good intuition around ideas such as dropout and learning rate adjustments. I bought the book because I wanted a quick intro to the DeepLearning4j framework - unfortunately the book has only one chapter dedicated to that with a fairly basic example. However, one can use it as a template and refer to the (very informative) DL4j website for more information. Overall, I think it is a good resource for Java programmers who want to learn Deep Learning.
The text is pretty difficult to follow, not because of the technical nature of the material, but because the author uses some pretty esoteric meanings for words. The text reads like someone simply transcribed audio lectures. I'll probably be returning this book.
If you are a data scientist just like me .you will love this particularly DL4J examples.Haven't completed the full book yet, but happy what I have read so far. It is technical, but let's face it deep learning is technical. Had some 'ah ha' moments while reading..
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