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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

Generative Adversarial Networks

Generative models are trained to generate more data similar to the one they are trained on, and adversarial models are trained to distinguish the real versus fake data by providing adversarial examples.

The Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) combine the features of both the models. The GANs have two components:

  • A generative model that learns how to generate similar data
  • A discriminative model that learns how to distinguish between the real and generated data (from the generative model)

GANs have been successfully applied to various complex problems such as:

  • Generating photo-realistic resolution images from low-resolution images
  • Synthesizing images from the text
  • Style transfer
  • Completing the incomplete images and videos

In this chapter, we shall study the following topics for learning how to implement GANs in TensorFlow and Keras:

  • Generative...