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Number of parameters comparison

You saw that the one-hot representation is not a good representation of words because it is very sparse. Using the Embedding layer creates a dense representation of the vectors, but also demands a lot of parameters to be learned.

In this exercise you will compare the number of parameters of two models using embeddings and one-hot encoding to see the difference.

The model model_onehot is already loaded in the environment, as well as the Sequential, Dense and GRU from keras. Finally, the parameters vocabulary_size=80000 and sentence_len=200 are also loaded.

This exercise is part of the course

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for Language Modeling with Keras

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Exercise instructions

  • Import the Embedding layer from keras.layers.
  • On the embedding layer, use vocabulary size plus one as input dimension and sentence size as input length.
  • Compile the model.
  • Print the summary of the model with embedding.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import the embedding layer
from tensorflow.keras.layers import ____

# Create a model with embeddings
model = Sequential(name="emb_model")
model.add(Embedding(input_dim=____, output_dim=wordvec_dim, input_length=____, trainable=True))
model.add(GRU(128))
model.add(Dense(1))
model.____(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])

# Print the summaries of the one-hot model
model_onehot.summary()

# Print the summaries of the model with embeddings
model.____
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