Table of Contents
Website xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Notation xix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Who Should Read This Book? 8
1.2 Historical Trends in Deep Learning 12
I Applied Math and Machine Learning Basics 27
2 Linear Algebra 29
2.1 Scalars, Vectors, Matrices and Tensors 29
2.2 Multiplying Matrices and Vectors 32
2.3 Identity and Inverse Matrices 34
2.4 Linear Dependence and Span 35
2.5 Norms 36
2.6 Special Kinds of Matrices and Vectors 38
2.7 Eigendecomposition 39
2.8 Singular Value Decomposition 42
2.9 The Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse 43
2.10 The Trace Operator 44
2.11 The Determinant 45
2.12 Example: Principal Components Analysis 45
3 Probability and Information Theory 51
3.1 Why Probability? 52
3.2 Random Variables 54
3.3 Probability Distributions 54
3.4 Marginal Probability 56
3.5 Conditional Probability 57
3.6 The Chain Rule of Conditional Probabilities 57
3.7 Independence and Conditional Independence 58
3.8 Expectation, Variance and Covariance 58
3.9 Common Probability Distributions 60
3.10 Useful Properties of Common Functions 65
3.11 Bayes' Rule 68
3.12 Technical Details of Continuous Variables 68
3.13 Information Theory 70
3.14 Structured Probabilistic Models 74
4 Numerical Computation 77
4.1 Overflow and Underflow 77
4.2 Poor Conditioning 79
4.3 Gradient-Based Optimization 79
4.4 Constrained Optimization 89
4.5 Example: Linear Least Squares 92
5 Machine Learning Basics 95
5.1 Learning Algorithms 96
5.2 Capacity, Overfitting and Underfitting 107
5.3 Hyperparamcters and Validation Sets 117
5.4 Estimators. Bias and Variance 119
5.5 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 128
5.6 Bayesian Statistics 132
5.7 Supervised Learning Algorithms 136
5.8 Unsupervised Learning Algorithms 142
5.9 Stochastic Gradient Descent 147
5.10 Building a Machine Learning Algorithm 149
5.11 Challenges Motivating Deep Learning 151
II Deep Networks: Modern Practices 161
6 Deep Feedforward Networks 163
6.1 Example: Learning XOR 166
6.2 Gradient-Based Learning 171
6.3 Hidden Units 185
6.4 Architecture De sign 191
6.5 Back-Propagation and Other Differentiation Algorithms 197
6.6 Historical Notes 217
7 Regularization for Deep Learning 221
7.1 Parameter Norm Penalties 223
7.2 Norm Penalties as Constrained Optimization 230
7.3 Regularization and Under-Constrained Problems 232
7.4 Dataset Augmentation 233
7.5 Noise Robustness 235
7.6 Semi-Supervised Learning 236
7.7 Multitask Learning 237
7.8 Early Stopping 239
7.9 Parameter Tying and Parameter Sharing 246
7.10 Sparse Representations 247
7.11 Bagging and Other Ensemble Methods 249
7.12 Dropout 251
7.13 Adversarial Training 261
7.14 Tangent Distance, Tangent Prop and Manifold Tangent Classifier 263
8 Optimization for Training Deep Models 267
8.1 How Learning Differs from Pure Optimization 268
8.2 Challenges in Neural Network Optimization 275
8.3 Basic Algorithms 286
8.4 Parameter Initialization Strategies 292
8.5 Algorithms with Adaptive Learning Rates 298
8.6 Approximate Second-Order Methods 302
8.7 Optimization Strategies and Met a-Algorithms 309
9 Convolutional Networks 321
9.1 The Convolution Operation 322
9.2 Motivation 324
9.3 Pooling 330
9.4 Convolution and Pooling as an Infinitely Strong Prior 334
9.5 Variants of the Basic Convolution Function 337
9.6 Structured Outputs 347
9.7 Data Types 348
9.8 Efficient Convolution Algorithms 350
9.9 Random or Unsupervised Features 351
9.10 The Neuroscientitle Basis for Convolutional Networks 353
9.11 Convolutional Networks and the History of Deep Learning 359
10 Sequence Modeling: Recurrent and Recursive Nets 363
10.1 Unfolding Computational Graphs 365
10.2 Recurrent Neural Networks 368
10.3 Bidirectional R.NNs 383
10.4 Encoder-Decoder Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures 385
10.5 Deep Recurrent Networks 387
10.6 Recursive Neural Networks 388
10.7 The Challenge of Long-Term Dependencies 390
10.8 Echo State Networks 392
10.9 Leaky Units and Other Strategies for Multiple Time Scales 395
10.10 The Long Short-Term Memory and Other Gated RNNs 397
10.11 Optimization for Long-Term Dependencies 401
10.12 Explicit Memory 405
11 Practical Methodology 409
11.1 Performance Metrics 410
11.2 Default Baseline Models 413
11.3 Determining Whether to Gather More Data 414
11.4 Selecting Hyper parameters 415
11.5 Debugging Strategies 424
11.6 Example: Multi-Digit Number Recognition 428
12 Applications 431
12.1 Large-Scale Deep Learning 431
12.2 Computer Vision 440
12.3 Speech Recognition 446
12.4 Natural Language Processing 448
12.5 Other Applications 465
III Deep Learning Research 475
13 Linear Factor Models 479
13.1 Probabilistic PCA and Factor Analysis 480
13.2 Independent Component Analysis (ICA) 481
13.3 Slow Feature Analysis 484
13.4 Sparse Coding 486
13.5 Manifold Interpretation of PCA 489
14 Autoencoders 493
14.1 Undercomplete Autoencoders 494
14.2 Regularized Autoencoders 49^
14.3 Representational Power. Layer Size and Depth 499
14.4 Stochastic Encoders and Decoders 500
14.5 Denoising Antoencoders 501
14.6 Learning Manifolds with Auto encoders 506
14.7 Contractive Autoencoders 510
14.8 Predictive Sparse Decomposition 514
14.9 Applications of Antoencoders 515
15 Representation Learning 517
15.1 Greedy Layer-Wise Unsupervised Pretraining 519
15.2 Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation 526
15.3 Semi-Supervised Disentangling of Causal Factors 532
15.4 Distributed Representation 536
15.5 Exponential Gains from Depth 543
15.6 Providing Clues to Discover Underlying Causes 544
16 Structured Probabilistic Models for Deep Learning 549
16.1 The Challenge of Unstructured Modeling 550
16.2 Using Graphs to Describe Model Structure 554
16.3 Sampling from Graphical Models 570
16.4 Advantages of Structured Modeling 572
16.5 Learning about Dependencies 572
16.6 Inference and Approximate Inference 573
16.7 The Deep Learning Approach to Structured Probabilistic Models 575
17 Monte Carlo Methods 581
17.1 Sampling and Monte Carlo Methods 581
17.2 Importance Sampling 583
17.3 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods 586
17.4 Gibbs Sampling 590
17.5 The Challenge of Mixing between Separated Modes 591
18 Confronting the Partition Function 597
18.1 The Log-Likelihood Gradient 598
18.2 Stochastic Maximum Likelihood and Contrastive Divergence 599
18.3 Pseudolikelihood 607
18.4 Score Matching and Ratio Matching 609
18.5 Denoising Score Matching 611
18.6 Noisc-Contrastive Estimation 612
15.4 Estimating the Partition Function 614
19 Approximate Inference 623
19.1 Inference as Optimization 624
19.2 Expectation Maximization 626
19.3 MAP Inference and Sparse Coding 627
19.4 Variational Inference and Learning 629
19.5 Learned Approximate Inference 642
20 Deep Generative Models 645
20.1 Boltzmann Machine? 645
20.2 Restricted Boltzmann Machines 647
20.3 Deep Belief Networks 651
20.4 Deep Boltzmann Machines 654
20.5 Boltzmann Machines for Real-Valued Data 667
20.6 Gonvolutional Boltzmann Machines 673
20.7 Boltzmann Machines for Structured or Sequential Outputs 675
20.8 Other Boltzmann Machines 677
20.9 Back-Propagation through Random Operations 678
20.10 Directed Generative Nets 682
20.11 Drawing Samples from Antocneodors 701
20.12 Generative Stochastic Networks 704
20.13 Other Generation Schemes 706
20.14 Evaluating Generative Models 707
20.15 Conclusion 710
Bibliography 711
Index 767
