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The TensorFlow Workshop

By : Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone
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The TensorFlow Workshop

By: Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone

Overview of this book

Getting to grips with tensors, deep learning, and neural networks can be intimidating and confusing for anyone, no matter their experience level. The breadth of information out there, often written at a very high level and aimed at advanced practitioners, can make getting started even more challenging. If this sounds familiar to you, The TensorFlow Workshop is here to help. Combining clear explanations, realistic examples, and plenty of hands-on practice, it’ll quickly get you up and running. You’ll start off with the basics – learning how to load data into TensorFlow, perform tensor operations, and utilize common optimizers and activation functions. As you progress, you’ll experiment with different TensorFlow development tools, including TensorBoard, TensorFlow Hub, and Google Colab, before moving on to solve regression and classification problems with sequential models. Building on this solid foundation, you’ll learn how to tune models and work with different types of neural network, getting hands-on with real-world deep learning applications such as text encoding, temperature forecasting, image augmentation, and audio processing. By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle your own ambitious deep learning projects with TensorFlow.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface

Implementing Custom Loss Functions

There are several types of loss functions that are commonly used for machine learning. In Chapter 5, Classification, you studied different types of loss functions and used them with different classification models. TensorFlow has quite a few built-in loss functions to choose from. The following are just a few of the more common loss functions:

  • Mean Absolute Error (MAE)
  • Mean Squared Error (MSE)
  • Binary cross-entropy
  • Categorical cross-entropy
  • Hinge
  • Huber
  • Mean Squared Logarithmic Error (MSLE)

As a quick reminder, you can think of loss functions as a kind of compass that allows you to clearly see what is working in an algorithm and what isn't. The higher the loss, the less accurate the model, and so on.

Although TensorFlow has several loss functions available, at some point, you will most likely need to create your own loss function for your specific needs. For instance, if you are building a model that...