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TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By : Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor
Book Image

TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By: Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor

Overview of this book

TensorFlow has transformed the way machine learning is perceived. TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects teaches you how to exploit the benefits—simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility—of using TensorFlow in various real-world projects. With the help of this book, you’ll not only learn how to build advanced projects using different datasets but also be able to tackle common challenges using a range of libraries from the TensorFlow ecosystem. To start with, you’ll get to grips with using TensorFlow for machine learning projects; you’ll explore a wide range of projects using TensorForest and TensorBoard for detecting exoplanets, TensorFlow.js for sentiment analysis, and TensorFlow Lite for digit classification. As you make your way through the book, you’ll build projects in various real-world domains, incorporating natural language processing (NLP), the Gaussian process, autoencoders, recommender systems, and Bayesian neural networks, along with trending areas such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), capsule networks, and reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use the TensorFlow on Spark API and GPU-accelerated computing with TensorFlow to detect objects, followed by how to train and develop a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to generate book scripts. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the required expertise to build full-fledged machine learning projects at work.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Overview of TensorFlow and Machine Learning

TensorFlow is a popular library for implementing machine learning-based solutions. It includes a low-level API known as TensorFlow core and many high-level APIs, including two of the most popular ones, known as TensorFlow Estimators and Keras. In this chapter, we will learn about the basics of TensorFlow and build a machine learning model using logistic regression to classify handwritten digits as an example.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • TensorFlow core:
    • Tensors in TensorFlow core
    • Constants
    • Placeholders
    • Operations
    • Tensors from Python objects
    • Variables
    • Tensors from library functions
  • Computation graphs:
    • Lazy loading and execution order
    • Graphs on multiple devices – CPU and GPGPU
    • Working with multiple graphs
  • Machine learning, classification, and logistic regression
  • Logistic regression examples in TensorFlow
  • Logistic regression examples in Keras

Note

You can follow the code examples in this chapter by using the Jupyter Notebook named ch-01_Overview_of_TensorFlow_and_Machine_Learning.ipynb that's included in the code bundle.