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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 learned how to use TensorFlow Core, TensorFlow Estimators, and Keras packages in R to build and train machine learning models. We provided a walkthrough of the MNIST examples from RStudio and provided links for further documentation of the TensorFlow and Keras R packages. We also learned how to use the visualization tool TensorBoard from within R. We also introduced a new tool from R Studio, tfruns, which allows you to create reports for multiple runs, analyze and compare them, and save them locally or publish them.

The ability to work directly in R is useful because plenty of production data science and machine learning code is written using R, and now you can integrate TensorFlow into the same codebase and run it within the R environment.

In the next chapter, we shall learn some techniques for debugging the code for building and training TensorFlow...