This repo contains an
incremental sequence of notebooks designed to teach deep learning, MXNet, and
the gluon interface. Our goal is to leverage the strengths of Jupyter
notebooks to present prose, graphics, equations, and code together in one place.
If we're successful, the result will be a resource that could be simultaneously
a book, course material, a prop for live tutorials, and a resource for
plagiarising (with our blessing) useful code. To our knowledge there's no source
out there that teaches either (1) the full breadth of concepts in modern deep
learning or (2) interleaves an engaging textbook with runnable code. We'll find
out by the end of this venture whether or not that void exists for a good
reason.
Another unique aspect of this book is its authorship process. We are developing this resource fully in the public view and are making it available for free in its entirety. While the book has a few primary authors to set the tone and shape the content, we welcome contributions from the community and hope to coauthor chapters and entire sections with experts and community members. Already we've received contributions spanning typo corrections through full working examples.
Throughout this book,
we rely upon MXNet to teach core concepts, advanced topics, and a full
complement of applications. MXNet is widely used in production environments
owing to its strong reputation for speed. Now with gluon, MXNet's new
imperative interface (alpha), doing research in MXNet is easy.
To run these notebooks, you'll want to build MXNet from source. Fortunately, this is easy (especially on Linux) if you follow these instructions. You'll also want to install Jupyter and use Python 3 (because it's 2017).
The authors (& others) are increasingly giving talks that are based on the content in this books. Some of these slide-decks (like the 6-hour KDD 2017) are gigantic so we're collecting them separately in this repo. Contribute there if you'd like to share tutorials or course material based on this books.
As we write the book, large stable sections are simultaneously being translated into 中文, available in a web version and via GitHub source.
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Chapter 1: Crash course
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Chapter 2: Introduction to supervised learning
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Chapter 3: Deep neural networks (DNNs)
- Multilayer perceptrons (from scratch)
- Multilayer perceptrons (with
gluon) - Dropout regularization (from scratch)
- Dropout regularization (with
gluon) - Introduction to
gluon.Blockandgluon.nn.Sequential() - Writing custom layers with
gluon.Block - Serialization: saving and loading models
- Advanced Data IO
- Debugging your neural networks
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Chapter 4: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
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Chapter 5: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs)
- Simple RNNs (from scratch)
- LSTMS RNNs (from scratch)
- GRUs (from scratch)
- RNNs (with
gluon) - Roadmap Dropout for recurrent nets
- Roadmap Zoneout regularization
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Chapter 6: Optimization
- Introduction to optimization
- Gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent
- SGD with Momentum
- Roadmap AdaGrad
- Roadmap RMSProp
- Roadmap Adam
- Roadmap AdaDelta
- Roadmap SGLD / SGHNT
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Chapter 7: Distributed & high-performance learning
- Fast & flexible: combining imperative & symbolic nets with HybridBlocks
- Training with multiple GPUs (from scratch)
- Training with multiple GPUs (with
gluon) - Training with multiple machines
- Roadmap Asynchronous SGD
- Roadmap Elastic SGD
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Chapter 8: Computer vision (CV)
- Roadmap Network of networks (inception & co)
- Roadmap Residual networks
- Object detection
- Roadmap Fully-convolutional networks
- Roadmap Siamese (conjoined?) networks
- Roadmap Embeddings (pairwise and triplet losses)
- Roadmap Inceptionism / visualizing feature detectors
- Roadmap Style transfer
- Visual-question-answer
- Fine-tuning
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Chapter 9: Natural language processing (NLP)
- Roadmap Word embeddings (Word2Vec)
- Roadmap Sentence embeddings (SkipThought)
- Roadmap Sentiment analysis
- Roadmap Sequence-to-sequence learning (machine translation)
- Roadmap Sequence transduction with attention (machine translation)
- Roadmap Named entity recognition
- Roadmap Image captioning
- Tree-LSTM for semantic relatedness
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Chapter 10: Audio processing
- Roadmap Intro to automatic speech recognition
- Roadmap Connectionist temporal classification (CSC) for unaligned sequences
- Roadmap Combining static and sequential data
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Chapter 11: Recommender systems
- Introduction to recommender systems
- Roadmap Latent factor models
- Roadmap Deep latent factor models
- Roadmap Bilinear models
- Roadmap Learning from implicit feedback
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Chapter 12: Time series
- Roadmap Forecasting
- Roadmap Modeling missing data
- Roadmap Combining static and sequential data
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Chapter 13: Unsupervised learning
- Roadmap Introduction to autoencoders
- Roadmap Convolutional autoencoders (introduce upconvolution)
- Roadmap Denoising autoencoders
- Roadmap Variational autoencoders
- Roadmap Clustering
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Chapter 14: Generative adversarial networks (GANs)
- Introduction to GANs
- Deep convolutional GANs (DCGANs)
- Roadmap Wasserstein-GANs
- Roadmap Energy-based GANS
- Roadmap Conditional GANs
- Image transduction GANs (Pix2Pix)
- Roadmap Learning from Synthetic and Unsupervised Images
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Chapter 15: Adversarial learning
- Roadmap Two Sample Tests
- Roadmap Finding adversarial examples
- Roadmap Adversarial training
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Chapter 16: Tensor Methods
- Introduction to tensor methods
- Roadmap Tensor decomposition
- Roadmap Tensorized neural networks
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Chapter 17: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL)
- Roadmap Introduction to reinforcement learning
- Roadmap Deep contextual bandits
- Deep Q-networks
- Roadmap Policy gradient
- Roadmap Actor-critic gradient
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Chapter 18: Variational methods and uncertainty
- Roadmap Dropout-based uncertainty estimation (BALD)
- Weight uncertainty (Bayes by Backprop)
- Roadmap Variational autoencoders
- Appendix 1: Cheatsheets
- Roadmap
gluon - Roadmap PyTorch to MXNet
- Roadmap Tensorflow to MXNet
- Roadmap Keras to MXNet
- Roadmap Math to MXNet
- Roadmap
We've designed these tutorials so that you can traverse the curriculum in more than one way.
- Anarchist - Choose whatever you want to read, whenever you want to read it.
- Imperialist - Proceed through all tutorials in order. In this fashion you will be exposed to each model first from scratch, writing all the code ourselves but for the basic linear algebra primitives and automatic differentiation.
- Capitalist - If you don't care how things work (or already know) and just want to see working code in
gluon, you can skip (from scratch!) tutorials and go straight to the production-like code using the high-levelgluonfront end.
This evolving creature is a collaborative effort (see contributors tab). The lead writers, assimilators, and coders include:
- Zachary C. Lipton (@zackchase)
- Mu Li (@mli)
- Alex Smola (@smolix)
- Sheng Zha (@szha)
- Aston Zhang (@astonzhang)
- Joshua Z. Zhang (@zhreshold)
- Eric Junyuan Xie (@piiswrong)
- Jean Kossaifi (@JeanKossaifi)
- Stephan Rabanser (@steverab)
In creating these tutorials, we've have drawn inspiration from some the resources that allowed us to learn deep / machine learning with other libraries in the past. These include:
- Soumith Chintala's Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz
- Alec Radford's Bare-bones intro to Theano
- Video of Alec's intro to deep learning with Theano
- Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Already, in the short time this project has been off the ground, we've gotten some helpful PRs from the community with pedagogical suggestions, typo corrections, and other useful fixes. If you're inclined, please contribute!