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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

Object detection using TensorFlowOnSpark and Sparkdl


Apache Spark has a higher level API Sparkdl for scalable deep learning in Python. In this section, we'll use the Sparkdl API. In this section, you will learn how to build a model over the pre-trained Inception v3 model to detect cars and buses. This technique of using a pre-trained model is called transfer learning.

Transfer learning

Learning in humans is a continuous process—whatever we learn today is built upon the learning we have had in the past. For example, if you know how to drive a bicycle, you can extend the same knowledge to drive a motorcycle, or drive a car. The driving rule remains the same—the only thing that changes is the control panel and actuators. However, in deep learning, we often start afresh. Is it possible to use the knowledge the model has gained in solving a problem in one domain, to solve the problem in another related domain? 

Yes, it's indeed possible, and it's called transfer learning. Though a lot of research...