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Mastering TensorFlow 1.x

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Mastering TensorFlow 1.x

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is the most popular numerical computation library built from the ground up for distributed, cloud, and mobile environments. TensorFlow represents the data as tensors and the computation as graphs. This book is a comprehensive guide that lets you explore the advanced features of TensorFlow 1.x. Gain insight into TensorFlow Core, Keras, TF Estimators, TFLearn, TF Slim, Pretty Tensor, and Sonnet. Leverage the power of TensorFlow and Keras to build deep learning models, using concepts such as transfer learning, generative adversarial networks, and deep reinforcement learning. Throughout the book, you will obtain hands-on experience with varied datasets, such as MNIST, CIFAR-10, PTB, text8, and COCO-Images. You will learn the advanced features of TensorFlow1.x, such as distributed TensorFlow with TF Clusters, deploy production models with TensorFlow Serving, and build and deploy TensorFlow models for mobile and embedded devices on Android and iOS platforms. You will see how to call TensorFlow and Keras API within the R statistical software, and learn the required techniques for debugging when the TensorFlow API-based code does not work as expected. The book helps you obtain in-depth knowledge of TensorFlow, making you the go-to person for solving artificial intelligence problems. By the end of this guide, you will have mastered the offerings of TensorFlow and Keras, and gained the skills you need to build smarter, faster, and efficient machine learning and deep learning systems.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Tensor Processing Units

Summary

In this chapter, we did a quick recap of the TensorFlow library. We learned about the TensorFlow data model elements, such as constants, variables, and placeholders, that can be used to build TensorFlow computation graphs. We learned how to create Tensors from Python objects. Tensor objects can also be generated as specific values, sequences, or random valued distributions from various library functions available in TensorFlow.

The TensorFlow programming model consists of building and executing computation graphs. The computation graphs have nodes and edges. The nodes represent operations and edges represent tensors that transfer data from one node to another. We covered how to create and execute graphs, the order of execution, and how to execute graphs on different compute devices, such as GPU and CPU. We also learned the tool to visualize the TensorFlow computation graphs, TensorBoard.

In the next chapter, we will explore some of the high-level libraries that are built on top of TensorFlow and allow us to build the models quickly.