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TensorFlow 2.0 Quick Start Guide

By : Tony Holdroyd
Book Image

TensorFlow 2.0 Quick Start Guide

By: Tony Holdroyd

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is one of the most popular machine learning frameworks in Python. With this book, you will improve your knowledge of some of the latest TensorFlow features and will be able to perform supervised and unsupervised machine learning and also train neural networks. After giving you an overview of what's new in TensorFlow 2.0 Alpha, the book moves on to setting up your machine learning environment using the TensorFlow library. You will perform popular supervised machine learning tasks using techniques such as linear regression, logistic regression, and clustering. You will get familiar with unsupervised learning for autoencoder applications. The book will also show you how to train effective neural networks using straightforward examples in a variety of different domains. By the end of the book, you will have been exposed to a large variety of machine learning and neural network TensorFlow techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Section 2: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Unsupervised Learning Using TensorFlow 2
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Section 3: Neural Network Applications of TensorFlow 2.00 Alpha
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Converting from tf1.12 to tf2

The features of Keras

If you want to know which version of Keras came with your TensorFlow, use the following command:

import tensorflow as tf
print(tf.keras.__version__)

At the time of writing, this produced the following (from the alpha build of TensorFlow 2):

2.2.4-tf

Other features of Keras include built-in support for multi-GPU data parallelism, and also the fact that Keras models can be turned into TensorFlow Estimators and trained on clusters of GPUs on Google Cloud.

Keras is, perhaps, unusual in that it is has a reference implementation maintained as an independent open source project, located at www.keras.io.

It's maintained independently of TensorFlow, although TensorFlow does have a full implementation of Keras in the tf.keras module. The implementation has TensorFlow-specific augmentations, including support for eager execution, by default.

Eager execution means...