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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

Training the model


Before understanding the implementation of the training loop, let's take a closer look at how we can generate batches of data.

It is common knowledge that batches are used in neural networks to speed up the training of the model and to consume less memory. Batches are samples of the original dataset that are used for a forward and backward pass to the network. The forward pass refers to the process of multiplying inputs with weights of different layers in the network and obtaining the final output. The backward pass, on the other hand, refers to the process of updating the weights in the neural network based on the loss obtained from the outputs of the forward pass. 

In this model, since we are predicting the next set of words given a set of previous words to generate the TV script, the targets are basically the next few (depending on sequence length) words in the original training dataset. Let's consider an example where the training dataset contains the following line...