Machine Learning with TensorFlow

Nishant Shukla

ISBN 10: 1617293873 / ISBN 13: 9781617293870

Published by Manning Publications, US, 2018

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DESCRIPTION Being able to make near-real-time decisions is becoming increasingly crucial. To succeed, we need machine learning systems that can turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights. But when you're just starting out in the data science field, how do you get started creating machine learning applications? The answer is TensorFlow, a new open source machine learning library from Google. The TensorFlow library can take your high level designs and turn them into the low level mathematical operations required by machine learning algorithms. Machine Learning with TensorFlow teaches readers about machine learning algorithms and how to implement solutions with TensorFlow. It starts with an overview of machine learning concepts and moves on to the essentials needed to begin using TensorFlow. Each chapter zooms into a prominent example of machine learning. Readers can cover them all to master the basics or skip around to cater to their needs. By the end of this book, readers will be able to solve classification, clustering, regression, and prediction problems in the real world. KEY FEATURES . Lots of diagrams, code examples, and exercises . Solves real-world problems with TensorFlow . Uses well-studied neural network architectures . Presents code that can be used for the readers' own applications AUDIENCE This book is for programmers who have some experience with Python and linear algebra concepts like vectors and matrices. No experience with machine learning is necessary. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Google open-sourced their machine learning framework called TensorFlow in late 2015 under the Apache 2.0 license. Before that, it was used proprietarily by Google in its speech recognition, Search, Photos, and Gmail, among other applications. TensorFlow is one the most popular machine learning libraries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Machine Learning with TensorFlow
• Publisher: Manning Publications, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617293873
• ISBN 13: 9781617293870
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Summary

Machine Learning with TensorFlow gives readers a solid foundation in machine-learning concepts plus hands-on experience coding TensorFlow with Python.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

TensorFlow, Google's library for large-scale machine learning, simplifies often-complex computations by representing them as graphs and efficiently mapping parts of the graphs to machines in a cluster or to the processors of a single machine.

About the Book

Machine Learning with TensorFlow gives readers a solid foundation in machine-learning concepts plus hands-on experience coding TensorFlow with Python. You'll learn the basics by working with classic prediction, classification, and clustering algorithms. Then, you'll move on to the money chapters: exploration of deep-learning concepts like autoencoders, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning. Digest this book and you will be ready to use TensorFlow for machine-learning and deep-learning applications of your own.

What's Inside

• Matching your tasks to the right machine-learning and deep-learning approaches
• Visualizing algorithms with TensorBoard
• Understanding and using neural networks

About the Reader

Written for developers experienced with Python and algebraic concepts like vectors and matrices.

About the Author

Author Nishant Shukla is a computer vision researcher focused on applying machine-learning techniques in robotics.

Senior technical editor, Kenneth Fricklas, is a seasoned developer, author, and machine-learning practitioner.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - YOUR MACHINE-LEARNING RIG

1. A machine-learning odyssey
2. TensorFlow essentials

PART 2 - CORE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

3. Linear regression and beyond
4. A gentle introduction to classification
5. Automatically clustering data
6. Hidden Markov models

PART 3 - THE NEURAL NETWORK PARADIGM

7. A peek into autoencoders
8. Reinforcement learning
9. Convolutional neural networks
10. Recurrent neural networks
11. Sequence-to-sequence models for chatbots
12. Utility landscape

About the Author

Nishant Shukla is a computer vision researcher focused on applying machine-learning techniques in robotics.