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The TensorFlow Workshop

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

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 the previous chapter, you learned how to use some TensorFlow resources to aid in development. These included TensorBoard (for visualizing computational graphs), TensorFlow Hub (an online repository for machine learning modules), and Google Colab (an online Python development environment for running code on Google servers). All these resources help machine learning practitioners develop models efficiently.

In this chapter, you will explore how to create ANNs using TensorFlow. You will build ANNs with different architectures to solve regression and classification tasks. Regression tasks aim to predict continuous variables from the input training data, while classification tasks aim to classify the input data into two or more classes. For example, a model to predict whether or not it will rain on a given day is a classification task since the result of the model will be of two classes—rain or no rain. However, a model to predict the amount of rain on a given...