I have looked through Prince's book (the free PDF) and think it is reasonably modern and pretty good. I'll probably pick up a copy at some point.
I have the new d2l book. At ~25 USD it is hard not to recommend it... the paperback print (color!) quality is good. I prefer reading print books so, for me, it is a good companion to the website, which is awesome.
The same Bishop who wrote PRML? Nice! Looking through it does seem to be very up to date, although I wish there was a little bit more on topics like geometric deep learning and flow matching. Of course if every niche had a more thorough treatment this book would be impossibly long but more than a couple paragraphs would have been cool.
Jurafsky's 3rd edition draft of his NLP book and Simon Prince's DL book both have chapters on transformers, and the latter also on diffusion. Both have official free pdf versions.
Murphy's book is about probabilistic/Bayesian machine learning whereas this, according to the preface is 'almost entirely non-Bayesian'. Murphy's book is also a lot more general, this one is about the deep learning subset of ML.
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I'm interested in your opinion about them; both have pytorch code (notebooks).
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Understanding Deep Learning
by Simon J.D. Prince
Published by MIT Press Dec 5th 2023.
https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Deep-Learning-Simon-Pri...
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Dive into Deep Learning
https://d2l.ai/
https://www.amazon.com/Dive-into-Learning-Aston-Zhang/dp/100...
I have the new d2l book. At ~25 USD it is hard not to recommend it... the paperback print (color!) quality is good. I prefer reading print books so, for me, it is a good companion to the website, which is awesome.
https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf
Now that Amazon has competition they are not offering even $1 of discount. In the old days you'd get at least $20 off list price.
I also got Nathan Ida's book on Electromagnetic, hardcover, for ~40 USD direct from springer.
Price fixing at Amazon with books also included publishers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/technology/amazon-price-f...
It is a new book, so my question is, is this title worth 90 bucks? Nope probably not. Maybe 9.99 for an ebook would be reasonable.
To paraphrase: Do you want piracy, because this is how you get piracy...
And it's available to read for free online, in its entirety, on the author's website.
It's hard to beat this proposition.
IMO, yes. I'll be ordering a copy. But "different strokes for different folks" and all that.
I'm about 10 feet from PRML right now, more than a decade after I got it.
see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/pattern... for the free PDF copy.
Besides this book are there any in the same league that are applicable to learn more about the diffusion and transformer model architectures?
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/
Does anyone see a book icon? Or are we meant to flip through a slideshow embedded in the website?
[1] https://probml.github.io/pml-book/