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TensorFlow 2.0 Quick Start Guide

By : Tony Holdroyd
Book Image

TensorFlow 2.0 Quick Start Guide

By: Tony Holdroyd

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is one of the most popular machine learning frameworks in Python. With this book, you will improve your knowledge of some of the latest TensorFlow features and will be able to perform supervised and unsupervised machine learning and also train neural networks. After giving you an overview of what's new in TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha, the book moves on to setting up your machine learning environment using the TensorFlow library. You will perform popular supervised machine learning tasks using techniques such as linear regression, logistic regression, and clustering. You will get familiar with unsupervised learning for autoencoder applications. The book will also show you how to train effective neural networks using straightforward examples in a variety of different domains. By the end of the book, you will have been exposed to a large variety of machine learning and neural network TensorFlow techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Section 2: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Unsupervised Learning Using TensorFlow 2
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Section 3: Neural Network Applications of TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Converting from tf1.12 to tf2

Keras, a High-Level API for TensorFlow 2

In this chapter, we will discuss Keras, which is a high-level API for TensorFlow 2. Keras was developed by François Chollet at Google. Keras has become extremely popular for fast prototyping, for building and training deep learning models, and for research and production. Keras is a very rich API; it supports eager execution and data pipelines, and other features, as we will see.

Keras has been available for TensorFlow since 2017, but its use has been extended and further integrated into TensorFlow with the release of TensorFlow 2.0. TensorFlow 2.0 has embraced Keras as the API of choice for the majority of deep learning development work.

It is possible to import Keras as a standalone module, but in this book, we will concentrate on using Keras from within TensorFlow 2. The module is, thus, tensorflow.keras.

In this chapter, we will...