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In this post, I am going to talk about deep learning.
Objective is to provide a high-level information so that you understand;
What is deep learning?
Deep learning is subset of machine learning.
Deep learning is derivative of neural networks, also known as automated neural networks.
Automated neural networks are subset of supervised machine learning techniques. Automated neural networks are primarily used for regression and classification in machine learning, but deep learning takes this concept forward.
Deep learning models are kind of hybrid machine learning model where deep learning follow philosophy of unsupervised machine learning.
I will explain the high-level difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning models later in this post.
But if you are interested in learning more about machine learning and ANN, you can check out my course on machine learning.
All kind of neural networks (deep learning or conventional shallow neural networks), they all try to mimic the human brain function.
For example, if you look at this diagram (I know it’s ugly but will serve our purpose), our body consist of various organs like brain, heart, hands, legs etc.
Every organ depends upon brain to perform the desired or required action.
So, if you wanted to lift something using your hands, your brain will send signals to the hands and they will perform the action.
Off course, human nervous system is very complex, and people do PhD in them, so we can’t cover everything in one post but that’s how our brain and body function.
Brain sends electrical signals to various organs. And for transmission, it uses nerve cells. Also known as neurons.
There are millions of neurons in our body.
These three arrows in this diagram are representing neurons here. There will be many more neurons from brain to hands.
You can think of these neurons as wires. We use wires to connect electrical equipment like fan, TV to power outlet. These wires are used for conduction of electricity. Neurons does the same job.
Deep learning models consist of;
- 1Input layer
- 2Hidden layers (many hidden layers)
- 3Output layer
Input layer consist of input parameters, which are data set’s variables or features.
Hidden layers are trying to mimic human behavior. This is where magic happens.
Output layer consist of output of the model like class.
Few examples of deep learning models (deep learning algorithms) are;
- 1CNN- Convolutional neural network
- 2RNN- Recurrent neural network
- 3LSTM- long short-term memory
- 4GAN- Generative adversarial network
Deep learning is very close to artificial intelligence as far as its application is concerned. Most popular libraries used in deep learning projects are tensorflow, pytorch.
Popular applications of deep learning
Deep learning is used in building next gen products like;
Core value or advantage of deep learning
In a typical supervised machine learning models, data scientist will decide what kind of features or variables should be used for model building. For example, if you look at this table (please ignore the values as I have manually entered everything from illustration purpose only).
Serial # | Name | Height (cm) | Weight (kgs) | BMI | FBS | Random Sugar | Age | Diabetic |
1 | Some name | 118 | 88 | 29 | 100 | 118 | 45 | Yes |
2 | Some name | 93 | 93 | 33 | 105 | 93 | 24 | No |
3 | Some name | 102 | 102 | 31 | 100 | 102 | 18 | Yes |
4 | Some name | 162 | 62 | 34 | 98 | 162 | 55 | No |
5 | Some name | 154 | 54 | 35 | 91 | 154 | 45 | Yes |
6 | Some name | 176 | 76 | 31 | 90 | 176 | 43 | No |
7 | Some name | 177 | 77 | 25 | 115 | 177 | 54 | Yes |
8 | Some name | 171 | 71 | 21 | 125 | 171 | 66 | No |
9 | Some name | 170 | 70 | 24 | 256 | 170 | 71 | Yes |
10 | Some name | 168 | 68 | 28 | 123 | 168 | 58 | No |
Now we can build a predictive model using this data set using logistic regression model to predict if a person will be diabetic or not.
Serial number, names or any other unique id is not used in building machine learning models because unique values doesn’t have a pattern.
So, we will drop serial number and name from the data set while building model. This process of selecting variables or feature, is called feature engineering.
Now in this case, feature engineering is easy but if we are building a model for image recognition, it becomes close to impossible to do feature engineering.
We will have to breakdown the image to individual features like pixels and various features of the images which is impossible.
This is where deep learning comes to rescue, we can simply pass our images to the deep learning model and it will automatically detect feature.
There is no feature engineering required with deep learning models.
And this is the biggest advantage of deep learning over supervised machine learning models.
This is a very high-level overview of deep learning models.
I am working on a course on deep learning, it will include fundamentals of deep learning, convolutional neural network model development with tensorflow and pytorch. We will build a model for image recognition. This is cutting edge and very hot topic right now.
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Useful Information. Thanks for sharing
Great work thank you for sharing such useful information. keep it up all the best. I can also refer you to one of the best Deep Learning Solutions software services in Hyderabad.
Great work thank you for sharing such useful information. keep it up all the best. I can also refer you to one of the best Deep Learning Solutions services in Hyderabad.