acknowledgments

First, we’d like to thank the Keras community for making this book possible. Over the past decade, Keras has grown to have thousands of open source contributors and more than 2 million users. Their contributions and feedback have turned Keras into what it is today.

On a personal note, François would like to thank his wife for her endless support during the development of Keras and the writing of this book. Matthew would like to thank his partner Kate, his family, and all the friends who have supported him along the way.

We thank the people at Manning who made this book possible: publisher Marjan Bace and everyone on the editorial and production teams, including Michael Stephens, Aleksandar Dragosavljević, and many others who worked behind the scenes.

Many thanks go to the peer reviewers: Aakash Nain, Abheesht Sharma, Abhishek Shivanna, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Avinash Tiwari, Brandon Friar, Christopher Kardell, Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Edmon Begoli, Guillaume Alleon, Ian Stirk, Jacqueline Nolis, Kishore Reddy, Levi McClenny, Margaret Maynard-Reid, Nilson Chapagain, Prashanth Josyula, Preetish Kakkar, Sai Srinivas Somarouthu, Samuel Marks, Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Thiago Britto Borges, Todd Cook, and Varun Chawla—and all the other people who sent us feedback on the draft of the book.