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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By : Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By: Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy

Overview of this book

Deep learning is the step that comes after machine learning, and has more advanced implementations. Machine learning is not just for academics anymore, but is becoming a mainstream practice through wide adoption, and deep learning has taken the front seat. As a data scientist, if you want to explore data abstraction layers, this book will be your guide. This book shows how this can be exploited in the real world with complex raw data using TensorFlow 1.x. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to implement deep learning algorithms for machine learning systems and integrate them into your product offerings, including search, image recognition, and language processing. Additionally, you’ll learn how to analyze and improve the performance of deep learning models. This can be done by comparing algorithms against benchmarks, along with machine intelligence, to learn from the information and determine ideal behaviors within a specific context. After finishing the book, you will be familiar with machine learning techniques, in particular the use of TensorFlow for deep learning, and will be ready to apply your knowledge to research or commercial projects.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introducing Keras

Keras is a minimalist, high-level neural networks library, capable of running on top of TensorFlow. It was developed with a focus on enabling easy and fast prototyping and experimentation. Keras runs on Python 2.7 or 3.5, and can seamlessly execute on GPUs and CPUs given the underlying frameworks. It is released under the MIT license.

Keras was developed and maintained by François Chollet, a Google engineer, following these design principles:

  • Modularity: A model is understood as a sequence or a graph of the standalone, fully configurable modules that can be plugged together with as few restrictions as possible. Neural layers, cost functions, optimizers, initialization schemes, and activation functions are all standalone modules that can be combined to create new models.
  • Minimalism: Each module must be short (few lines of code) and simple. The source code should be transparent upon the dirt...