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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

Introduction

In this chapter, you will explore generative models, which are types of unsupervised learning algorithms that generate completely new artificial data. Generative models differ from predictive models in that they aim to generate new samples from the same distribution of training data. While the purpose of these models may be very different from those covered in other chapters, you can and will use many of the concepts learned in prior chapters, including loading and preprocessing various data files, hyperparameter tuning, and building convolutional and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). In this chapter, you will learn about one way to generate new samples from a training dataset, which is to use LSTM models to complete sequences of data based on initial seed data.

Another way that you will learn about is the concept of two neural networks competing against one another in an adversarial way, that is, a generator generating samples and a discriminator trying to distinguish...