This book aims to familiarize readers with the new features introduced in TensorFlow 2.0 (TF 2.0) and to empower you to unlock its potential while building machine learning applications. This chapter provides a bird's-eye view of new architectural and API-level changes in TF 2.0. We will cover TF 2.0 installation and setup, and will compare the changes with respect to TensorFlow 1.x (TF 1.x), such as Keras APIs and layer APIs. We will also cover the addition of rich extensions, such as TensorFlow Probability, Tensor2Tensor, Ragged Tensors, and the newly available custom training logic for loss functions. This chapter also summarizes the changes to the layers API and other APIs.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- What's new?
- TF 2.0 installation and setup
- Using TF 2.0
- Rich extensions