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Deep Learning By Example

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Deep Learning By Example

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a popular subset of machine learning, and it allows you to build complex models that are faster and give more accurate predictions. This book is your companion to take your first steps into the world of deep learning, with hands-on examples to boost your understanding of the topic. This book starts with a quick overview of the essential concepts of data science and machine learning which are required to get started with deep learning. It introduces you to Tensorflow, the most widely used machine learning library for training deep learning models. You will then work on your first deep learning problem by training a deep feed-forward neural network for digit classification, and move on to tackle other real-world problems in computer vision, language processing, sentiment analysis, and more. Advanced deep learning models such as generative adversarial networks and their applications are also covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of all the essential concepts in deep learning. With the help of the examples and code provided in this book, you will be equipped to train your own deep learning models with more confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Implementing Fish Recognition

Getting output from TensorFlow

In the previous section, we knew how to build a computational graph, but we need to actually run it and get its value.

We can deploy/run the graph with something called a session, which is just a binding to a particular execution context such as a CPU or a GPU. So, we are going to take the graph that we build and deploy it to a CPU or a GPU context.

To run the graph, we need to define a session object called sess, and we are going to call the function run which takes two arguments:

sess.run(fetches, feeds)

Here:

  • fetches are the list of the graph nodes that return the output of the nodes. These are the nodes we are interested in computing the value of.
  • feeds are going to be a dictionary mapping from graph nodes to actual values that we want to run in our model. So, this is where we actually fill in the placeholders that we talked about earlier.
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