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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

Chapter 4. Support Vector Machines

This chapter will cover some important recipes regarding how to use, implement, and evaluate support vector machines (SVM) in TensorFlow. The following areas will be covered:

  • Working with a Linear SVM

  • Reduction to Linear Regression

  • Working with Kernels in TensorFlow

  • Implementing a Non-Linear SVM

  • Implementing a Multi-Class SVM

Note

Note that both the prior covered logistic regression and most of the SVMs in this chapter are binary predictors. While logistic regression tries to find any separating line that maximizes the distance (probabilistically), SVMs also try to minimize the error while maximizing the margin between classes. In general, if the problem has a large number of features compared to training examples, try logistic regression or a linear SVM. If the number of training examples is larger, or the data is not linearly separable, a SVM with a Gaussian kernel may be used.

Also remember that all the code for this chapter is available online at https://github...