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TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook

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TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook

Overview of this book

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a lot of success in the field of computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. This exciting recipe-based guide will take you from the realm of DNN theory to implementing them practically to solve real-life problems in the artificial intelligence domain. In this book, you will learn how to efficiently use TensorFlow, Google’s open source framework for deep learning. You will implement different deep learning networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Deep Q-learning Networks (DQNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), with easy-to-follow standalone recipes. You will learn how to use TensorFlow with Keras as the backend. You will learn how different DNNs perform on some popularly used datasets, such as MNIST, CIFAR-10, and Youtube8m. You will not only learn about the different mobile and embedded platforms supported by TensorFlow, but also how to set up cloud platforms for deep learning applications. You will also get a sneak peek at TPU architecture and how it will affect the future of DNNs. By using crisp, no-nonsense recipes, you will become an expert in implementing deep learning techniques in growing real-world applications and research areas such as reinforcement learning, GANs, and autoencoders.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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TensorFlow Processing Units

Reading from CSV files and preprocessing data

Most of you will already be familiar with Pandas and its usefulness in handling large dataset files. TensorFlow also offers methods to read from the files. In the first chapter, we went through the recipe for reading from files in TensorFlow; in this recipe, we will focus on how to read from CSV files and preprocess the data before training.

Getting ready

We will consider the Boston housing price dataset (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston) collected by Harrison and Rubinfield in 1978. The dataset contains 506 sample cases. Each house is assigned 14 attributes:

  • CRIM: per capita crime rate by town
  • ZN: Proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft
  • INDUS: Proportion...