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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

Keras 101

Keras is a high-level library that allows the use of TensorFlow as a backend deep learning library. TensorFlow team has included Keras in TensorFlow Core as module tf.keras. Apart from TensorFlow, Keras also supports Theano and CNTK at the time of writing this book.

The following guiding principles of Keras have made it very popular among the deep learning community:

  • Minimalism to offer a consistent and simple API
  • Modularity to allow the representation of various elements as pluggable modules
  • Extensibility to add new modules as classes and functions
  • Python-native for both code and model configuration
  • Out-of-the-box common network architectures that support CNN, RNN, or a combination of both

Throughout the remainder of this book, we shall learn how to build different kinds of deep learning and machine learning models with both the low-level TensorFlow API and the high...