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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick McClure
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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick McClure

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an open source software library for Machine Intelligence. The independent recipes in this book will teach you how to use TensorFlow for complex data computations and allow you to dig deeper and gain more insights into your data than ever before. With the help of this book, you will work with recipes for training models, model evaluation, sentiment analysis, regression analysis, clustering analysis, artificial neural networks, and more. You will explore RNNs, CNNs, GANs, reinforcement learning, and capsule networks, each using Google's machine learning library, TensorFlow. Through real-world examples, you will get hands-on experience with linear regression techniques with TensorFlow. Once you are familiar and comfortable with the TensorFlow ecosystem, you will be shown how to take it to production. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in the field of machine intelligence using TensorFlow. You will also have good insight into deep learning and be capable of implementing machine learning algorithms in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with batch and stochastic training

While TensorFlow updates our model variables according to back propagation, it can operate on anything from one-datum observation to a large batch of data at once. Operating on one training example can make for a very erratic learning process, while using too large a batch can be computationally expensive. Choosing the right type of training is crucial for getting our machine learning algorithms to converge to a solution.

Getting ready

In order for TensorFlow to compute the variable gradients for back propagation to work, we have to measure the loss on a sample or multiple samples. Stochastic training only works on one randomly sampled data-target pair at a time, just as we did in...