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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 the previous chapter, you learned how convolution neural networks (CNNs) analyze images and learn relevant patterns to classify their main subjects or identify objects within them. You also saw the different types of layers used for such models.

But rather than training a model from scratch, it would be more efficient if you could reuse existing models with pre-calculated weights. This is exactly what transfer learning and fine-tuning are about. You will learn how to apply these techniques to your own projects and datasets in this chapter.

You will also look at the ImageNet competition and the corresponding dataset that is used by deep learning researchers to benchmark their models against state-of-the-art algorithms. Finally, you will learn how to use TensorFlow Hub's resources to build your own model.