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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By : Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By: Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy

Overview of this book

Deep learning is the step that comes after machine learning, and has more advanced implementations. Machine learning is not just for academics anymore, but is becoming a mainstream practice through wide adoption, and deep learning has taken the front seat. As a data scientist, if you want to explore data abstraction layers, this book will be your guide. This book shows how this can be exploited in the real world with complex raw data using TensorFlow 1.x. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to implement deep learning algorithms for machine learning systems and integrate them into your product offerings, including search, image recognition, and language processing. Additionally, you’ll learn how to analyze and improve the performance of deep learning models. This can be done by comparing algorithms against benchmarks, along with machine intelligence, to learn from the information and determine ideal behaviors within a specific context. After finishing the book, you will be familiar with machine learning techniques, in particular the use of TensorFlow for deep learning, and will be ready to apply your knowledge to research or commercial projects.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introducing the OpenAI Gym framework

To implement a Q-learning algorithm we'll use the OpenAI Gym framework, which is a TensorFlow compatible toolkit for developing and comparing Reinforcement Learning algorithms.

OpenAI Gym consists of two main parts:

  • The Gym open source library: A collection of problems and environments that can be used to test Reinforcement Learning algorithms. All these environments have a shared interface, allowing you to write RL algorithms.
  • The OpenAI Gym service: A site and API allowing people to meaningfully compare the performance of their trained agents.
See more references at https://gym.openai.com.

To get started, you'll need to have Python 2.7 or Python 3.5. To install Gym, use the pip installer:

sudo pip install gym.

Once installed, you can list Gym's environments as follows:

>>>from gym import envs 
>>>print(envs.registry.all())

The output list...