Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade

Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade
Author: Genevieve B. Orr
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540494308

It is our belief that researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them successfully apply neural networks to di cult real world problems. Often these \tricks" are theo- tically well motivated. Sometimes they are the result of trial and error. However, their most common link is that they are usually hidden in people’s heads or in the back pages of space-constrained conference papers. As a result newcomers to the eld waste much time wondering why their networks train so slowly and perform so poorly. This book is an outgrowth of a 1996 NIPS workshop called Tricks of the Trade whose goal was to begin the process of gathering and documenting these tricks. The interest that the workshop generated motivated us to expand our collection and compile it into this book. Although we have no doubt that there are many tricks we have missed, we hope that what we have included will prove to be useful, particularly to those who are relatively new to the eld. Each chapter contains one or more tricks presented by a given author (or authors). We have attempted to group related chapters into sections, though we recognize that the di erent sections are far from disjoint. Some of the chapters (e.g., 1, 13, 17) contain entire systems of tricks that are far more general than the category they have been placed in.

Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade

Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade
Author: Grégoire Montavon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642352898

The twenty last years have been marked by an increase in available data and computing power. In parallel to this trend, the focus of neural network research and the practice of training neural networks has undergone a number of important changes, for example, use of deep learning machines. The second edition of the book augments the first edition with more tricks, which have resulted from 14 years of theory and experimentation by some of the world's most prominent neural network researchers. These tricks can make a substantial difference (in terms of speed, ease of implementation, and accuracy) when it comes to putting algorithms to work on real problems.

Better Deep Learning

Better Deep Learning
Author: Jason Brownlee
Publisher: Machine Learning Mastery
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2018-12-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Deep learning neural networks have become easy to define and fit, but are still hard to configure. Discover exactly how to improve the performance of deep learning neural network models on your predictive modeling projects. With clear explanations, standard Python libraries, and step-by-step tutorial lessons, you’ll discover how to better train your models, reduce overfitting, and make more accurate predictions.

Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Mining

Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Mining
Author: Petia Georgieva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2012-07-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642286968

The book presents some of the most efficient statistical and deterministic methods for information processing and applications in order to extract targeted information and find hidden patterns. The techniques presented range from Bayesian approaches and their variations such as sequential Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo filters, Rao Blackwellization, to the biologically inspired paradigm of Neural Networks and decomposition techniques such as Empirical Mode Decomposition, Independent Component Analysis and Singular Spectrum Analysis. The book is directed to the research students, professors, researchers and practitioners interested in exploring the advanced techniques in intelligent signal processing and data mining paradigms.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8
Author: David S. Touretzky
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 1128
Release: 1996
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262201070

The past decade has seen greatly increased interaction between theoretical work in neuroscience, cognitive science and information processing, and experimental work requiring sophisticated computational modeling. The 152 contributions in NIPS 8 focus on a wide variety of algorithms and architectures for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They are divided into nine parts: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Theory, Algorithms and Architectures, Implementations, Speech and Signal Processing, Vision, Applications, and Control. Chapters describe how neuroscientists and cognitive scientists use computational models of neural systems to test hypotheses and generate predictions to guide their work. This work includes models of how networks in the owl brainstem could be trained for complex localization function, how cellular activity may underlie rat navigation, how cholinergic modulation may regulate cortical reorganization, and how damage to parietal cortex may result in neglect. Additional work concerns development of theoretical techniques important for understanding the dynamics of neural systems, including formation of cortical maps, analysis of recurrent networks, and analysis of self- supervised learning. Chapters also describe how engineers and computer scientists have approached problems of pattern recognition or speech recognition using computational architectures inspired by the interaction of populations of neurons within the brain. Examples are new neural network models that have been applied to classical problems, including handwritten character recognition and object recognition, and exciting new work that focuses on building electronic hardware modeled after neural systems. A Bradford Book

Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology

Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
Author: Duoqian Miao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 877
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319117408

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2014. The 70 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers in this volume cover topics such as foundations and generalizations of rough sets, attribute reduction and feature selection, applications of rough sets, intelligent systems and applications, knowledge technology, domain-oriented data-driven data mining, uncertainty in granular computing, advances in granular computing, big data to wise decisions, rough set theory, and three-way decisions, uncertainty, and granular computing.

Connectionist Models

Connectionist Models
Author: David S. Touretzky
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1483214486

Connectionist Models contains the proceedings of the 1990 Connectionist Models Summer School held at the University of California at San Diego. The summer school provided a forum for students and faculty to assess the state of the art with regards to connectionist modeling. Topics covered range from theoretical analysis of networks to empirical investigations of learning algorithms; speech and image processing; cognitive psychology; computational neuroscience; and VLSI design. Comprised of 40 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to mean field, Boltzmann, and Hopfield networks, focusing on deterministic Boltzmann learning in networks with asymmetric connectivity; contrastive Hebbian learning in the continuous Hopfield model; and energy minimization and the satisfiability of propositional logic. Mean field networks that learn to discriminate temporally distorted strings are described. The next sections are devoted to reinforcement learning and genetic learning, along with temporal processing and modularity. Cognitive modeling and symbol processing as well as VLSI implementation are also discussed. This monograph will be of interest to both students and academicians concerned with connectionist modeling.

Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing

Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing
Author: Yoav Goldberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031021657

Neural networks are a family of powerful machine learning models. This book focuses on the application of neural network models to natural language data. The first half of the book (Parts I and II) covers the basics of supervised machine learning and feed-forward neural networks, the basics of working with machine learning over language data, and the use of vector-based rather than symbolic representations for words. It also covers the computation-graph abstraction, which allows to easily define and train arbitrary neural networks, and is the basis behind the design of contemporary neural network software libraries. The second part of the book (Parts III and IV) introduces more specialized neural network architectures, including 1D convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, conditioned-generation models, and attention-based models. These architectures and techniques are the driving force behind state-of-the-art algorithms for machine translation, syntactic parsing, and many other applications. Finally, we also discuss tree-shaped networks, structured prediction, and the prospects of multi-task learning.

Programming PyTorch for Deep Learning

Programming PyTorch for Deep Learning
Author: Ian Pointer
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1492045322

Take the next steps toward mastering deep learning, the machine learning method that’s transforming the world around us by the second. In this practical book, you’ll get up to speed on key ideas using Facebook’s open source PyTorch framework and gain the latest skills you need to create your very own neural networks. Ian Pointer shows you how to set up PyTorch on a cloud-based environment, then walks you through the creation of neural architectures that facilitate operations on images, sound, text,and more through deep dives into each element. He also covers the critical concepts of applying transfer learning to images, debugging models, and PyTorch in production. Learn how to deploy deep learning models to production Explore PyTorch use cases from several leading companies Learn how to apply transfer learning to images Apply cutting-edge NLP techniques using a model trained on Wikipedia Use PyTorch’s torchaudio library to classify audio data with a convolutional-based model Debug PyTorch models using TensorBoard and flame graphs Deploy PyTorch applications in production in Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters running on Google Cloud

Soft Computing

Soft Computing
Author: Luigi Fortuna
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447103572

The book presents a clear understanding of a new type of computation system, the Cellular Neural Network (CNN), which has been successfully applied to the solution of many heavy computation problems, mainly in the fields of image processing and complex partial differential equations. The text describes how CNN will improve the soft-computation toolbox, and examines the many applications of soft computing to complex systems.