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What's New in TensorFlow 2.0

By : Ajay Baranwal, Alizishaan Khatri, Tanish Baranwal
Book Image

What's New in TensorFlow 2.0

By: Ajay Baranwal, Alizishaan Khatri, Tanish Baranwal

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an end-to-end machine learning platform for experts as well as beginners, and its new version, TensorFlow 2.0 (TF 2.0), improves its simplicity and ease of use. This book will help you understand and utilize the latest TensorFlow features. What's New in TensorFlow 2.0 starts by focusing on advanced concepts such as the new TensorFlow Keras APIs, eager execution, and efficient distribution strategies that help you to run your machine learning models on multiple GPUs and TPUs. The book then takes you through the process of building data ingestion and training pipelines, and it provides recommendations and best practices for feeding data to models created using the new tf.keras API. You'll explore the process of building an inference pipeline using TF Serving and other multi-platform deployments before moving on to explore the newly released AIY, which is essentially do-it-yourself AI. This book delves into the core APIs to help you build unified convolutional and recurrent layers and use TensorBoard to visualize deep learning models using what-if analysis. By the end of the book, you'll have learned about compatibility between TF 2.0 and TF 1.x and be able to migrate to TF 2.0 smoothly.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Recommended techniques to employ for idiomatic TF 2.0

The first recommendation concerns dealing with a general code workflow in TF 2.0. A common workflow in TF 1.x was to use a waterfall strategy, where all of the computations were laid out onto the default graph. Then, selected tensors were run using session.run(). In TF 2.0, code should be refactored into smaller functions that will be called as needed. These functions can be normal Python functions and can still be run in graph mode if they're called inside another function annotated with tf.function. This means that tf.function should only be used to annotate high-level computations, such as the forward pass of a model or a single training step.

Previously, all of the computations that were needed for the model and training loop would be predetermined and written, and were executed using session.run(). This made TF 1.x...