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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

Learning the TensorFlow way of linear regression

The statistical approach in linear regression, using matrices and decomposition methods on data, is very powerful. In any event TensorFlow has another means to solve for the coefficients of a slope and an intercept in a regression problem. TensorFlow can achieve a result in such problems iteratively, that is, gradually learning the best linear regression parameters that will minimize the loss, as we have seen in the recipes in previous chapters.

The interesting fact is that you actually don't have to write all the code from scratch when dealing with a regression problem in TensorFlow: Estimators and Keras can assist you in doing that. Estimators are to be found in tf.estimator, a high-level API in TensorFlow.

Estimators were introduced in TensorFlow 1.3 (see https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/releases/tag/v1.3.0-rc2) as ''canned Estimators'', pre-made specific procedures (such as regression...

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