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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

Neural Networks and MLP with TensorFlow and Keras

The neural network is a modeling technique that was inspired by the structure and functioning of the brain. Just as the brain contains millions of tiny interconnected units known as neurons, the neural networks of today consist of millions of tiny interconnected computing units arranged in layers. Since the computing units of neural networks only exist in the digital world, as against the physical neurons of the brain, they are also called artificial neurons. Similarly, the neural networks (NN) are also known as the artificial neural networks (ANN).

In this chapter, we are going to further expand on the following topics:

  • The perceptron (artificial neuron)
  • Feed forward neural networks
  • MultiLayer Perceptron (MLP) for image classification
    • TensorFlow-based MLP for MNIST image classification
    • Keras-based MLP for MNIST classification...