Deep Learning Architectures: A Mathematical Approach

by Ovidiu Calin

Overview

This book describes how neural networks operate from the mathematical point of view. As a result, neural networks can be interpreted both as function universal approximators and information processors. The book bridges the gap between ideas and concepts of neural networks, which are used nowadays at an intuitive level, and the precise modern mathematical language, presenting the best practices of the former and enjoying the robustness and elegance of the latter.

This book can be used in a graduate course in deep learning, with the first few parts being accessible to senior undergraduates. In addition, the book will be of wide interest to machine learning researchers who are interested in a theoretical understanding of the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030367237
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/14/2021
Series:	Springer Series in the Data Sciences
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	760
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ovidiu Calin, a graduate from University of Toronto, is a professor at Eastern Michigan University and a former visiting professor at Princeton University and University of Notre Dame. He has delivered numerous lectures at several universities in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Kuwait over the last 15 years. His publications include over 60 articles and 8 books in the fields of machine learning, computational finance, shastic processes, variational calculus and geometric analysis.

Table of Contents

Introductory Problems.- Activation Functions.- Cost Functions.- Finding Minima Algorithms.- Abstract Neurons.- Neural Networks.- Approximation Theorems.- Learning with One-dimensional Inputs.- Universal Approximators.- Exact Learning.- Information Representation.- Information Capacity Assessment.- Output Manifolds.- Neuromanifolds.- Pooling.- Convolutional Networks.- Recurrent Neural Networks.- Classification.- Generative Models.- Shastic Networks.- Hints and Solutions.

Editorial Reviews

This book is useful to students who have already had an introductory course in machine learning and are further interested to deepen their understanding of the machine learning material from the mathematical point of view.” (T. C. Mohan, zbMATH 1441.68001, 2020)

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