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What's New in TensorFlow 2.0

By : Ajay Baranwal, Alizishaan Khatri, Tanish Baranwal
Book Image

What's New in TensorFlow 2.0

By: Ajay Baranwal, Alizishaan Khatri, Tanish Baranwal

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an end-to-end machine learning platform for experts as well as beginners, and its new version, TensorFlow 2.0 (TF 2.0), improves its simplicity and ease of use. This book will help you understand and utilize the latest TensorFlow features. What's New in TensorFlow 2.0 starts by focusing on advanced concepts such as the new TensorFlow Keras APIs, eager execution, and efficient distribution strategies that help you to run your machine learning models on multiple GPUs and TPUs. The book then takes you through the process of building data ingestion and training pipelines, and it provides recommendations and best practices for feeding data to models created using the new tf.keras API. You'll explore the process of building an inference pipeline using TF Serving and other multi-platform deployments before moving on to explore the newly released AIY, which is essentially do-it-yourself AI. This book delves into the core APIs to help you build unified convolutional and recurrent layers and use TensorBoard to visualize deep learning models using what-if analysis. By the end of the book, you'll have learned about compatibility between TF 2.0 and TF 1.x and be able to migrate to TF 2.0 smoothly.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page

Summary

This chapter covered two ways to convert TF 1.x code into TF 2.0 code. The first way is to use the included upgrade script, which changes all API calls from tf.x to tf.compat.v1.x. This allows TF 1.x code to run in TF 2.0, but will not benefit from the upgrades that were brought in TF 2.0. The second way is to change TF 1.x to idiomatic TF 2.0 code, which involves two steps. The first step is to change all model creation code into TF 2.0 code, which involves changing tensors using sess.run calls into functions, and placeholders and feed dicts into arguments for the function. Models that are created using the tf.layers API have a one-to-one comparison to tf.keras.layers. The second step is to upgrade the training pipeline by using either tf.keras.Model.fit or a custom training loop with tf.GradientTape.

TF 2.0 brings many changes in the way TensorFlow code...