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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned two very important concepts: transfer learning and fine-tuning. Both help deep learning practitioners to leverage existing pre-trained models and adapt them to their own projects and datasets.

Transfer learning is the re-use of models that have been trained on large datasets such as ImageNet (which contains more than 14 million images). TensorFlow provides a list of such pre-trained models in its core API. You can also access other models from renowned publishers such as Google and NVIDIA through TensorFlow Hub.

Finally, you got some hands-on practice fine-tuning a pre-trained model. You learned how to freeze the early layers of a model and only train the last layers according to the specificities of the input dataset.

These two techniques were a major breakthrough for the community as they facilitated access to state-of-the-art models for anyone interested in applying deep learning models.

In the next chapter, you will look at another...