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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 an LSTM model

We will extend our RNN model to be able to use longer sequences by introducing the LSTM unit in this recipe.

Getting ready

Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) is a variant of the traditional RNN. LSTM is a way to address the vanishing/exploding gradient problem that variable length RNNs have. To address this issue, LSTM cells introduce an internal forget gate, which can modify a flow of information from one cell to the next. To conceptualize how this works, we will walk through an unbiased version of LSTM one equation at a time. The first step is the same as for the regular RNN:

In order to figure out which values we want to forget or pass through, we will evaluate candidate values as follows. These values...