April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
10h 15m
English
In this chapter, we have walked the reader toward an understanding of what deep learning is and how it is related to deep neural networks. We have also discussed how many different implementations of deep neural networks exist, besides the classical feed-forward implementation, and have discussed the recent successes deep learning has had on many standard classification tasks. This chapter has been rich with concepts and ideas, developed through examples and historical remarks from the Jacquard loom to the Ising model. This is just the beginning, and we will work out many examples in which the ideas introduced in this chapter will be explained and developed more precisely.
We are going to start this process in the coming chapter, where ...