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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 gates and activation functions

Now that we can link together operational gates, we want to run the computational graph output through an activation function. In this section, we will introduce common activation functions.

Getting ready

In this section, we will compare and contrast two different activation functions: sigmoid and rectified linear unit (ReLU). Recall that the two functions are given by the following equations:

In this example, we will create two one-layer neural networks with the same structure, except that one will feed through the sigmoid activation and one will feed through the ReLU activation. The loss function will be governed by the L2 distance from the value 0.75. We will randomly pull...