Deep Learning with JavaScript

Chapter 10. Generative deep learning

This chapter covers

• What generative deep learning is, its applications, and how it differs from the deep-learning tasks we’ve seen so far
• How to generate text using an RNN
• What latent space is and how it can form the basis of generating novel images, through the example of variational autoencoders
• The basics of generative adversarial networks

Some of the most impressive tasks demonstrated by deep neural networks have involved generating images, sounds, and text that look or sound real. Nowadays, deep neural networks are capable of creating highly realistic human face images,^[1] synthesizing natural-sounding speech,^[2] and composing compellingly coherent text,^[3] just to name a few achievements. Such