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Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

By : Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert, Matthieu Brucher
Book Image

Building Machine Learning Systems with Python - Third Edition

By: Luis Pedro Coelho, Willi Richert, Matthieu Brucher

Overview of this book

Machine learning enables systems to make predictions based on historical data. Python is one of the most popular languages used to develop machine learning applications, thanks to its extensive library support. This updated third edition of Building Machine Learning Systems with Python helps you get up to speed with the latest trends in artificial intelligence (AI). With this guide’s hands-on approach, you’ll learn to build state-of-the-art machine learning models from scratch. Complete with ready-to-implement code and real-world examples, the book starts by introducing the Python ecosystem for machine learning. You’ll then learn best practices for preparing data for analysis and later gain insights into implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques such as classification, regression and clustering. As you progress, you’ll understand how to use Python’s scikit-learn and TensorFlow libraries to build production-ready and end-to-end machine learning system models, and then fine-tune them for high performance. By the end of this book, you’ll have the skills you need to confidently train and deploy enterprise-grade machine learning models in Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Getting Started with Python Machine Learning

Saving and restoring neural networks

There are two ways of storing a trained neural network for future use and then restoring it. We will see that they enable this in the convolutional neural network example.

The first one lives in tf.train. It is created with the following statement:

saver = tf.train.Saver(max_to_keep=10)

And then each training step can be saved with:

saver.save(sess, './classifier', global_step=step)

Here the full graph is saved, but it is possible to only save part of it. We save it all here, and only keep the last 10 saves, and we postfix the name of the save with the step we are at.

Let's say that we saved the final training step with saver.save(sess, './classifier-final'). We know we first have to restore the graph state with:

new_saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph("classifier-final.meta")

This didn't restore the variable...