Top Books on Deep Learning
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- Deep Learning - Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville - 2016 - The deep learning reference text — free online.
- Hands-On Machine Learning, 3rd Ed. - Aurélien Géron - 2022 - Practical ML with end-to-end projects using modern Python tooling — updated for TF2/Keras 3.
- Deep Learning with Python, 2nd Ed. - François Chollet - 2021 - Intuitive deep learning from the Keras creator — partially free online.
- Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Ed. - Tunstall, von Werra, Wolf - 2022 - Modern NLP and transformer workflows with Hugging Face and hands-on examples.
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, 2nd Ed. - Sutton & Barto - 2018 - The RL classic, from bandits to policy gradients — free online.
- Generative Deep Learning, 2nd Ed. - David Foster - 2023 - Practical generative modeling: VAEs, GANs, diffusion, and transformers.