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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)

Implementing a decomposition method

For this recipe, we will implement a matrix decomposition method for linear regression. Specifically, we will use Cholesky decomposition, for which relevant functions exist in TensorFlow.

Getting ready

Implementing the inverse methods from the previous recipe can be numerically inefficient in most cases, especially when the matrices get very large. Another approach is to decompose the A matrix and perform matrix operations on the decompositions instead. One such approach is to use the built-in Cholesky decomposition method in TensorFlow.

One reason people are so interested in decomposing a matrix into more matrices is that the resultant matrices will have assured properties that allow us...