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Machine Learning Using TensorFlow Cookbook

You're reading from   Machine Learning Using TensorFlow Cookbook Create powerful machine learning algorithms with TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208865
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Konrad Banachewicz Konrad Banachewicz
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Preface 1. Getting Started with TensorFlow 2.x 2. The TensorFlow Way FREE CHAPTER 3. Keras 4. Linear Regression 5. Boosted Trees 6. Neural Networks 7. Predicting with Tabular Data 8. Convolutional Neural Networks 9. Recurrent Neural Networks 10. Transformers 11. Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow and TF-Agents 12. Taking TensorFlow to Production 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
14. Index

Implementing activation functions

Activation functions are the key for neural networks to approximate non-linear outputs and adapt to non-linear features. They introduce non-linear operations into neural networks. If we're careful as to which activation functions are selected and where we put them, they're very powerful operations that we can tell TensorFlow to fit and optimize.

Getting ready

When we start to use neural networks, we'll use activation functions regularly because activation functions are an essential part of any neural network. The goal of an activation function is just to adjust weight and bias. In TensorFlow, activation functions are non-linear operations that act on tensors. They are functions that operate in a similar way to the previous mathematical operations. Activation functions serve many purposes, but the main concept is that they introduce a non-linearity into the graph while normalizing the outputs.

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