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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we covered TensorFlow's fundamentals, and we are now able to set up a computational graph. This chapter will introduce Keras, a high-level neural network API written in Python with multiple backends. TensorFlow is one of them. François Chollet, a French software engineer and AI researcher currently working at Google, created Keras for his own personal use before it was open-sourced in 2015. Keras's primary goal is to provide an easy-to-use and accessible library to enable fast experiments.

TensorFlow v1 suffers from usability issues; in particular, a sprawling and sometimes confusing API. For example, TensorFlow v1 offers two high-level APIs:

  • The Estimator API (added in release 1.1) is used for training models on localhost or distributed environments
  • The Keras API was then added later (release 1.4.0) and intended to be used for fast prototyping

With TensorFlow v2, Keras became the...

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