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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

MLP for image classification

Let's build the MLP network for image classification using different libraries, such as TensorFlow, Keras, and TFLearn. We shall use the MNIST data set for the examples in this section.

The MNIST dataset contains the 28x28 pixel images of handwritten digits from 0 to 9, and their labels, 60K for the training set and 10K for the test set. The MNIST dataset is the most widely used data set, including in TensorFlow examples and tutorials.

The MNIST dataset and related documentation are available from the following link: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/.

Let us start with the pure TensorFlow approach.

TensorFlow-based MLP for MNIST classification

First, load the MNIST dataset, and define the...