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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

You're reading from   TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook Over 60 practical recipes to help you master Google's TensorFlow machine learning library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462169
Length 370 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with TensorFlow FREE CHAPTER 2. The TensorFlow Way 3. Linear Regression 4. Support Vector Machines 5. Nearest Neighbor Methods 6. Neural Networks 7. Natural Language Processing 8. Convolutional Neural Networks 9. Recurrent Neural Networks 10. Taking TensorFlow to Production 11. More with TensorFlow Index

Implementing Back Propagation

One of the benefits of using TensorFlow, is that it can keep track of operations and automatically update model variables based on back propagation. In this recipe, we will introduce how to use this aspect to our advantage when training machine learning models.

Getting ready

Now we will introduce how to change our variables in the model in such a way that a loss function is minimized. We have learned about how to use objects and operations, and create loss functions that will measure the distance between our predictions and targets. Now we just have to tell TensorFlow how to back propagate errors through our computational graph to update the variables and minimize the loss function. This is done via declaring an optimization function. Once we have an optimization function declared, TensorFlow will go through and figure out the back propagation terms for all of our computations in the graph. When we feed data in and minimize the loss function, TensorFlow will...

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