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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Nick McClure
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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Nick McClure

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an open source software library for Machine Intelligence. The independent recipes in this book will teach you how to use TensorFlow for complex data computations and will let you dig deeper and gain more insights into your data than ever before. You’ll work through recipes on training models, model evaluation, sentiment analysis, regression analysis, clustering analysis, artificial neural networks, and deep learning – each using Google’s machine learning library TensorFlow. This guide starts with the fundamentals of the TensorFlow library which includes variables, matrices, and various data sources. Moving ahead, you will get hands-on experience with Linear Regression techniques with TensorFlow. The next chapters cover important high-level concepts such as neural networks, CNN, RNN, and NLP. Once you are familiar and comfortable with the TensorFlow ecosystem, the last chapter will show you how to take it to production.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Working with Multiple Layers


Now that we have covered multiple operations, we will cover how to connect various layers that have data propagating through them.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will introduce how to best connect various layers, including custom layers. The data we will generate and use will be representative of small random images. It is best to understand these types of operation on a simple example and how we can use some built-in layers to perform calculations. We will perform a small moving window average across a 2D image and then flow the resulting output through a custom operation layer.

In this section, we will see that the computational graph can get large and hard to look at. To address this, we will also introduce ways to name operations and create scopes for layers. To start, load numpy and tensorflow and create a graph, using the following:

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
sess = tf.Session()

How to do it…

  1. First we create our sample 2D image with numpy. This...