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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 12. Object Detection at a Large Scale with TensorFlow

The recent breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have brought deep learning to the forefront. Today, even more organizations are employing deep learning technologies for analyzing their data, which is often voluminous in nature. Hence, it's imperative that deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow can be combined with big data platforms and pipelines.

The 2017 Facebook paper regarding training ImageNet in one hour using 256 GPUs spread over 32 servers (https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/imagenet1kin1h5.pdf) and a recent paper by Hong Kong Baptist University where they train ImageNet in four minutes using 2,048 GPUs (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.11205.pdf) prove that distributed AI can be a viable solution.

The main idea behind distributed AI is that the task can be divided into different processing clusters. A large number of frameworks have been proposed for distributed AI. We can use either...