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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

Learning about TensorFlowOnSpark


In the year 2016, Yahoo open sourced TensorFlowOnSpark, a Python framework for performing TensorFlow-based distributed deep learning on Spark clusters. Since then, it has undergone a lot of developmental changes and is one of the most active repositories regarding the distributed deep learning framework.

The TensorFlowOnSpark (TFoS) framework allows you to run distributed TensorFlow applications from within Spark programs. It runs on the existing Spark and Hadoop clusters. It can use existing Spark libraries such as SparkSQL or MLlib (the Spark machine learning library).

TFoS is automatic, so we do not need to define the nodes as PS nodes, nor do we need to upload the same code to all of the nodes in the cluster. By just performing a few modifications, we can run our existing TensorFlow code. It allows us to scale up the existing TensorFlow apps with minimal changes. It supports all of the existing TensorFlow functionality such as synchronous/asynchronous training...