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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

Preprocessing the dataset for RNN models with TensorFlow

In order to make it ready for the learning models, normalize the dataset by applying MinMax scaling that brings the dataset values between 0 and 1. You can try applying different scaling methods to the data depending on the nature of your data.

# normalize the dataset
scaler = skpp.MinMaxScaler(feature_range=(0, 1))
normalized_dataset = scaler.fit_transform(dataset)

We use our homegrown utility function to split the dataset into train and test datasets. The data has to be split without shuffling the dataset as shuffling the dataset breaks the sequence. Maintaining the sequence of the data is important to train the time series models.

train,test=tsu.train_test_split(normalized_dataset,train_size=0.67)

Then we convert the train and test datasets into supervised machine learning sets. Let's try to understand the meaning...