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Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By : KC Tung
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Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By: KC Tung

Overview of this book

TensorFlow as a machine learning (ML) library has matured into a production-ready ecosystem. This beginner’s book uses practical examples to enable you to build and deploy TensorFlow models using optimal settings that ensure long-term support without having to worry about library deprecation or being left behind when it comes to bug fixes or workarounds. The book begins by showing you how to refine your TensorFlow project and set it up for enterprise-level deployment. You’ll then learn how to choose a future-proof version of TensorFlow. As you advance, you’ll find out how to build and deploy models in a robust and stable environment by following recommended practices made available in TensorFlow Enterprise. This book also teaches you how to manage your services better and enhance the performance and reliability of your artificial intelligence (AI) applications. You’ll discover how to use various enterprise-ready services to accelerate your ML and AI workflows on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Finally, you’ll scale your ML models and handle heavy workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and Cloud TPUs. By the end of this TensorFlow book, you’ll have learned the patterns needed for TensorFlow Enterprise model development, data pipelines, training, and deployment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1 – TensorFlow Enterprise Services and Features
4
Section 2 – Data Preprocessing and Modeling
7
Section 3 – Scaling and Tuning ML Works
10
Section 4 – Model Optimization and Deployment

Chapter 5: Training at Scale

When we build and train more complex models or use large amounts of data in an ingestion pipeline, we naturally want to make better use of all the compute time and memory resources at our disposal in a more efficient way. This is the major purpose of this chapter, as we are going to integrate what we learned in previous chapters with techniques for distributed training running in a cluster of compute nodes.

TensorFlow has developed a high-level API for distributed training. Furthermore, this API integrates with the Keras API very well. As it turns out, the Keras API is now a first-class citizen in the TensorFlow ecosystem. Compared to the estimator API, Keras receives the most support when it comes to a distributed training strategy. Therefore, this chapter will predominantly focus on using the Keras API with a distributed training strategy. We will leverage Google Cloud resources to demonstrate how to make minimal changes to the Keras API code we are...