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Deep Learning with TensorFlow. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831109
Pages 484 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Giancarlo Zaccone Giancarlo Zaccone
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Md. Rezaul Karim Md. Rezaul Karim
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters close

Deep Learning with TensorFlow - Second Edition
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
1. Getting Started with Deep Learning 2. A First Look at TensorFlow 3. Feed-Forward Neural Networks with TensorFlow 4. Convolutional Neural Networks 5. Optimizing TensorFlow Autoencoders 6. Recurrent Neural Networks 7. Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing 8. Advanced TensorFlow Programming 9. Recommendation Systems Using Factorization Machines 10. Reinforcement Learning Index

Summary


In this chapter, we had a quick look at two fundamentals topics related to optimizing the computation of DNNs.

The first topic explained how to use GPUs and TensorFlow to implement DNNs. They are structured in a very uniform manner so that, at each layer of the network, thousands of identical artificial neurons perform the same computation. Hence, the architecture of a DNN fits quite well with the kinds of computation that a GPU can efficiently perform.

The second topic introduced distributed computing. This was initially used to perform very complex calculations that could not be completed by a single machine. Likewise, analyzing large amounts of data quickly by splitting this task among different nodes appears to be the best strategy when faced with such a big challenge.

At the same time, DL problems can be exploited using distributed computing. DL computations can be divided into multiple activities (tasks); each of them will be given a fraction of data and will return a result that...

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