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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

Decision tree-based ensembles in TensorFlow


In this chapter, we shall use the gradient boosted trees and random forest implementation as pre-made estimators in TensorFlow from the Google TensorFlow team. Let us learn the details of their implementation in the upcoming sections.

TensorForest Estimator

TensorForest is a highly scalable implementation of random forests built by combining a variety of online HoeffdingTree algorithms with the extremely randomized approach.

Note

Google published the details of the TensorForest implementation in the following paper: TensorForest: Scalable Random Forests on TensorFlow by Thomas Colthurst, D. Sculley, Gibert Hendry, Zack Nado, presented at Machine Learning Systems Workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2016. The paper is available at the following link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtbHN5c25pcHMyMDE2fGd4OjFlNTRiOWU2OGM2YzA4MjE.

TensorForest estimators are used to implementing...