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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By : Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow

By: Giancarlo Zaccone, Md. Rezaul Karim, Ahmed Menshawy

Overview of this book

Deep learning is the step that comes after machine learning, and has more advanced implementations. Machine learning is not just for academics anymore, but is becoming a mainstream practice through wide adoption, and deep learning has taken the front seat. As a data scientist, if you want to explore data abstraction layers, this book will be your guide. This book shows how this can be exploited in the real world with complex raw data using TensorFlow 1.x. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to implement deep learning algorithms for machine learning systems and integrate them into your product offerings, including search, image recognition, and language processing. Additionally, you’ll learn how to analyze and improve the performance of deep learning models. This can be done by comparing algorithms against benchmarks, along with machine intelligence, to learn from the information and determine ideal behaviors within a specific context. After finishing the book, you will be familiar with machine learning techniques, in particular the use of TensorFlow for deep learning, and will be ready to apply your knowledge to research or commercial projects.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

What you need for this book

All the examples have been implemented using Python version 2.7 (and 3.5) on an Ubuntu Linux 64 bit including the TensorFlow library version 1.0.1. However, all the source codes that are shown in the book are Python 2.7 compatible. Further, source codes for Python 3.5 compatible can be downloaded from the Packt repository. Source codes for Python 3.5+ compatible can be downloaded from the Packt repository.

You will also need the following Python modules (preferably the latest version):

  • Pip
  • Bazel
  • Matplotlib
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • mnist_data

For chapters 8, 9 and 10, you will need the following frameworks too:

  • Keras
  • XLA
  • Pretty Tensor
  • TFLearn
  • OpenAI gym

Most importantly, GPU-enabled version of TensorFlow has several requirements such as 64-bit Linux, Python 2.7 (or 3.3+ for Python 3), NVIDIA CUDA® 7.5 (CUDA 8.0 required for Pascal GPUs) and NVIDIA cuDNN v4.0 (minimum) or v5.1 (recommended). More specifically, the current implementation of TensorFlow supports GPU computing with NVIDIA toolkits, drivers and software only.