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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

What is TensorFlow Lite?


Before we take a deep dive into TensorFlow Lite, let's try to understand what are the advantages of doing ML on edge devices like mobile/tablet and others.

  • Privacy: If inference on a ML model can be performed on a device, user data doesn't need to leave the device, which helps in preserving the privacy of the user.
  • Offline predictions: The device doesn't need to be connected to a network to make predictions on a ML model. This unlocks a lot of use cases in developing nations such as India where network connectivity is not so great.
  • Smart devices: This can also enable the development of smart home devices such as microwaves and thermostats with on-device intelligence.
  • Power efficient: An on-device ML can be more power-efficient as there is no need to transfer data back and forth to the server.
  • Sensor data utilization: ML models can make use of rich sensor data since it is easily available on mobile.

However, mobile devices are not same as our desktops and laptops. There...