Zefs Guide to Deep Learning
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning
About the Book
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning is a short guide to the most important concepts in deep learning, the technique at the center of the current artificial intelligence revolution. It will give you a strong understanding of the core ideas and most important methods in deep learning. This book presents the foundational concepts behind machine learning, neural networks, and the recent major advancements in architectures and training techniques in an easy to understand way. It also covers the most important applications of deep neural networks, including computer vision, natural language processing, and beyond. Your time is valuable, Zefs Guide to Deep Learning will get you up to speed in around only 150 pages!
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The Zefs Guides series
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning is the first book in the Zefs Guides series on deep learning and its applications. It forms the ground knowledge for the other books in the series:
- Zefs Guide to Computer Vision
- Zefs Guide to Natural Language Processing
- Zefs Guide to Transformers
Zefs Guides are designed to help the beginner quickly get up to speed on topics in machine learning and data science and to help the experienced practitioner push their conceptual understanding even further. They are short and to the point, covering the most important topics and ideas. They're for you if you are a job seeker looking for a role in ML/AI/DS, a student studying for exams, an experienced data person dusting off your old knowledge, or an executive seeking a better understanding of some of today's most important technologies.
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Reader Testimonials
Emil Wallner
Resident at Google. Author of "No Degree ML"
The visualizations are fantastic. This book is super helpful for those who are looking to improve their understanding of deep learning.
Vicki Boykis
Sr MLE at Duo, Creator of Normcore Tech
This is a fantastic, no-hype introduction to the practical considerations around deep learning both for practitioners who want to expand their ML knowledge, and for product and management teams who work adjacent to ML teams and want to have educated conversations around its use.
James Kirk
Co-founder and CTO of Meru Software Inc
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning succinctly covers the core concepts of machine learning. These topics are complex, but Roy's explanations and visualizations make them crystal clear, building the intuition you need to use them in practice. This is also a handy guide for managers and leaders who work around these topics and want to solidify their familiarity with them.
Nick Singh
Author of "Ace the Data Science Interview"
Zefs Guide provides a clear, succinct, and direct explanation of the most important topics in ML and Deep Learning. But words only go so far – it’s the visuals which illustrate the key concepts of the field where the book and flashcards truly shine!
Ravi Mody
ML Manager Spotify
I love this book. It's full of very succinct and clean explanations of a lot of complex topics. This will be great for beginners, but also anyone who needs to review deep learning.
Chris Albon
Director of ML at Wikimedia, Creator of Machine Learning Flashcards, Author of "Machine Learning with Python Cookbook"
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning is a no-nonsense, intuitive resource that is a must-buy for visual learners. Deep enough to be useful for a practitioner, but not mired in triviality.
Fausto Morales
Consulting Software Engineer Former Director of Computer Vision at Thorn
The examples and visualizations provide concrete representations of what can be difficult concepts to articulate in writing or verbally, which is great for teams who are considering whether deep learning might be a useful tool to solve specific problems ask the right questions.
Jeremy Jordan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer Duo
Zefs Guide to Deep Learning provides a solid introduction and illustration of the fundamental concepts of ML and deep learning. As a visual learner and thinker, I really appreciate how the illustrations help build your intuition of each topic discussed.
Binal Patel
Machine learning engineer
If I was starting from scratch today this would be one of the first books I'd pick up. It has intuitive, high level explanations of the concepts behind deep learning (and machine learning in general), with enough depth to give you an idea of what you should dig into more to expand your understanding.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction
- Why deep learning?
- Why this book?
- What does this book cover and not cover?
- How to use this book
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2 Machine Learning
- What is machine learning?
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Types of machine learning tasks and solutions
- Regression
- Classification
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Self-supervised learning
- Reinforcement learning
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An example task
- Predicting real estate sales prices
- Formulating machine learning problems
- Data sets and features
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Measuring performance
- Performance baselines and success thresholds
- Model selection
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Model training
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Loss functions
- Parameter optimization
- Generalization and overfitting
- Avoiding overfitting
- Hyperparameters
- Productionization
- Common issues
- Common machine learning models
- From “traditional” ML to deep learning
- References
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3 Neural Networks
- What is a neural network?
- What are some tasks that neural networks can accomplish?
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The building blocks of neural networks
- Activation functions
- Neural network layers
- Connections, weights, and biases
- Learning via gradient descent
- Output layers
- What does a neural network do?
- From basic neural networks to deep learning
- Resources
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4 The rise of deep learning
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Moving to deep neural networks
- What made deep neural networks possible?
- Where are we now with deep learning?
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Moving to deep neural networks
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5 Computer vision and convolutional neural networks
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Computers and images
- Computer vision tasks
- Traditional computer vision
- What’s hard about computer vision tasks?
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Convolutional neural networks
- Convolutions
- Filter size, strides, padding, and pooling
- A basic CNN architecture
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Some important CNN model architectures for computer vision tasks
- AlexNet
- ResNet
- U-Net for semantic segmentation
- YOLO for object detection
- Image generation with GANs
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Common CNN techniques
- Regularization
- Data augmentation
- Batch normalization
- Gradient descent algorithms
- Transfer learning
- Summary and resources
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Computers and images
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6 Natural language processing and sequential data techniques
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Text, natural language, and sequential data
- Types of sequential tasks
- Traditional approaches
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Making a neural network remember
- The recurrent neural network
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Creating context with embeddings
- Embeddings
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Architectures for sequential tasks
- Gated recurrent units
- Long short-term memory
- Attention
- Transformers
- Applications and Transformer based architectures
- Summary and resources
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Text, natural language, and sequential data
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7 Advanced techniques and practical considerations
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Combining vision and language
- Image captioning
- Joint embeddings
- Diffusion models
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Self-supervised learning
- Image-based techniques
- Contrastive learning
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Math topics related to deep learning
- Linear algebra
- Statistics and probability
- Differential calculus
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Machine learning engineering
- Deep learning libraries
- Graphical processing units and specialized hardware
- Machine learning systems
- Wrapping up
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Combining vision and language
- Notes
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