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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

Reinforcement learning 101

Reinforcement learning is described by an agent getting inputs of the observation and reward from the previous time-step and producing output as an action with the goal of maximizing cumulative rewards.

The agent has a policy, value function, and model:

  • The algorithm used by the agent to pick the next action is known as the policy. In the previous section, we wrote a policy that would take a set of parameters theta and would return the next action based on the multiplication between the observation and the parameters. The policy is represented by the following equation:
    ,
    S is set of states and A is set of actions.
    A policy is deterministic or stochastic.
    • A deterministic policy returns the same action for the same state in each run:
    • A stochastic policy returns the different probabilities for the same action for the same state in each run:
  • The...