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TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By : Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor
Book Image

TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects

By: Ankit Jain, Amita Kapoor

Overview of this book

TensorFlow has transformed the way machine learning is perceived. TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects teaches you how to exploit the benefits—simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility—of using TensorFlow in various real-world projects. With the help of this book, you’ll not only learn how to build advanced projects using different datasets but also be able to tackle common challenges using a range of libraries from the TensorFlow ecosystem. To start with, you’ll get to grips with using TensorFlow for machine learning projects; you’ll explore a wide range of projects using TensorForest and TensorBoard for detecting exoplanets, TensorFlow.js for sentiment analysis, and TensorFlow Lite for digit classification. As you make your way through the book, you’ll build projects in various real-world domains, incorporating natural language processing (NLP), the Gaussian process, autoencoders, recommender systems, and Bayesian neural networks, along with trending areas such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), capsule networks, and reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use the TensorFlow on Spark API and GPU-accelerated computing with TensorFlow to detect objects, followed by how to train and develop a recurrent neural network (RNN) model to generate book scripts. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the required expertise to build full-fledged machine learning projects at work.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Collaborative filtering


Collaborative filtering algorithms do not need detailed information about the user or the items. They build models based on user interactions with items such as song listened, item viewed, link clicked, item purchased or video watched. The information generated from the user-item interactions is classified into two categories: implicit feedback and explicit feedback:

  • Explicit feedback information is when the user explicitly assigns a score, such as a rating from 1 to 5 to an item.
  • Implicit feedback information is collected with different kinds of interaction between users and items, for example, view, click, purchase interactions in the Retailrocket dataset that we will use in our example.

Further collaborative filtering algorithms can be either user-based or item-based. In user-based algorithms, interactions between users are focused on to identify similar users. Then the user is recommended items that other similar users have bought or viewed. In item-based algorithms...