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TensorFlow 2 Pocket Primer
TensorFlow 2 Pocket Primer

TensorFlow 2 Pocket Primer: A Quick Reference Guide for TensorFlow 2 Developers

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  • Comprehensive guide to TensorFlow 2
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As part of the best-selling *Pocket Primer* series, this book introduces beginners to basic machine learning algorithms using TensorFlow 2. It provides a fast-paced introduction to TensorFlow, covering core features and machine learning basics with Python code samples. An appendix includes Keras-based code samples and explores MLPs, CNNs, RNNs, and LSTMs. The chapters illustrate how to solve various tasks, encouraging further reading to deepen your knowledge. The journey begins with an introduction to TensorFlow 2, followed by essential APIs and datasets. You'll explore linear regression and classifiers, learning to apply TensorFlow to practical problems. The comprehensive appendix covers advanced topics like NLPs and deep learning architectures, enhancing your understanding of machine learning. Understanding these concepts is crucial for modern AI applications. This book transitions readers from basic TensorFlow use to advanced machine learning techniques, blending theory with practical examples. Companion files with source code and figures enhance learning, making this an essential resource for mastering TensorFlow and machine learning.

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Developers with a basic understanding of Python and machine learning concepts will find this book ideal. It assumes familiarity with basic programming and data handling. Prior knowledge of TensorFlow 1.x is beneficial but not required.

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  • Master TensorFlow 2 APIs
  • Implement linear regression
  • Work with classifiers
  • Use TensorFlow 2 datasets
  • Understand eager execution
  • Convert TF 1.x code to TF 2

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Table of Contents

311 Chapters
What Is the Goal? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Will I Learn from This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 1.x and TF 2.0 Books: How Are They Different? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Why Isn’t Keras in Its Own Chapter in This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Much Keras Knowledge Is Needed for This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Do I Need to Learn the Theory Portions of This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Were the Code Samples Created Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are the Technical Prerequisites for This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are the Nontechnical Prerequisites for This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Which Topics Are Excluded? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Do I Set Up a Command Shell? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Companion Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are the “Next Steps” after Finishing This Book? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Introduction to TensorFlow 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is TF 2? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Use Cases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Architecture: The Short Version Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Installation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 and the Python REPL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other TF 2-Based Toolkits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Eager Execution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Tensors, Data Types, and Primitive Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Data Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Primitive Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Constants in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Variables in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.rank() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.shape() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Variables in TF 2 (Revisited) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Variables versus Tensors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is @tf.function in TF 2? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Does @tf.function Work? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Caveat about @tf.function in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.print() Function and Standard Error Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with @tf.function in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
An Example without @tf.function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
An Example with @tf.function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Overloading Functions with @tf.function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is AutoGraph in TF 2? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Arithmetic Operations in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Caveats for Arithmetic Operations in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 and Built-In Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Calculating Trigonometric Values in TF Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Calculating Exponential Values in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Strings in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Tensors and Operations in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Second-Order Tensors in TF 2 (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Second-Order Tensors in TF 2 (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Multiplying Two Second-Order Tensors in TF Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Convert Python Arrays to TF Tensors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Conflicting Types in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Differentiation and tf.GradientTape in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Examples of tf.GradientTape Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using the watch() Method of tf.GradientTape Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Nested Loops with tf.GradientTape Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Tensors with tf.GradientTape Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Persistent Gradient Tape Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Migrating TF 1.x Code to TF 2 Code (optional) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Two Conversion Techniques from TF 1.x to TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Converting to Pure TF 2 Functionality Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Converting Sessions to Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combine tf.data.Dataset and @tf.function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Use Keras Layers and Models to Manage Variables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TensorFlow Upgrade Script (optional) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Summary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Useful TF 2 APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Tensor Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using for Loops in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using while Loops in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Operations with Random Numbers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Tensors and Maximum Values Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 range() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Operations with Nodes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.size(), tf.shape(), and tf.rank() APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.reduce_prod() and tf.reduce_sum() APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.reduce_mean() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.random_normal() API (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 random_normal() API (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.truncated_normal() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.reshape() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.range() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.equal() API (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.equal() API (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.argmax() API (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.argmax() API (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.argmax() API (3) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining tf.argmax() and tf.equal() APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining tf.argmax() and tf.equal() APIs (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.map_fn() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a One-Hot Encoding? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF one_hot() API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Useful TF 2 APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Save and Restore TF 2 Variables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TensorFlow Ragged Constants and Tensors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a TFRecord? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Simple TFRecord Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are tf.layers? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is TensorBoard? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 with TensorBoard Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TensorBoard Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The tf.summary API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Google Colaboratory Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Cloud Platforms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Gcp Sdk Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Summary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: TF2 Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 tf.data.Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Pipeline Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basic Steps for TF 2 Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Simple TF 2 tf.data.Dataset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Lambda Expressions? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Generators in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Iterators? (optional) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 1.x Iterators (optional) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Concatenating TF 2 tf.Data.Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 reduce() Operator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Generators in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 filter() Operator (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 filter() Operator (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 batch() Operator (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 batch() Operator (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 map() Operator (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 map() Operator (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 flatmap() Operator (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 flatmap() Operator (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 flat_map() and filter() Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 repeat() Operator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The TF 2 take() Operator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining the TF 2 map() and take() Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining the TF 2 zip() and batch() Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Combining the TF 2 zip() and take() Operators Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 tf.data.Datasets and Random Numbers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2, MNIST, and tf.data.Dataset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the TFDS Package in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The CIFAR10 Dataset and TFDS in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with tf.estimator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are TF 2 Estimators? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other TF 2 Namespaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Summary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Linear Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Linear Regression? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Linear Regression versus Curve-Fitting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Multivariate Analysis? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
When Are Solutions Exact in Machine Learning? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Challenges with Linear Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Nonlinear Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Nonconstant Variance of Error Terms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Correlation of Error Terms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Collinearity Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Outliers and Anomalies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Types of Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Lines in the Plane Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scatter Plots with NumPy and Matplotlib (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Why the “Perturbation Technique” Is Useful Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scatter Plots with NumPy and Matplotlib (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Quadratic Scatter Plot with NumPy and Matplotlib Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Mean Squared Error (MSE) Formula Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A List of Error Types Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Nonlinear Least Squares Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Regularization? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Machine Learning and Feature Scaling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Data Normalization vs. Standardization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Bias-Variance Trade-off Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Metrics for Measuring Models Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Limitations of R-Squared Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Confusion Matrix Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Accuracy vs. Precision vs. Recall Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Useful Statistical Terms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is an F1 Score? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a p-value? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Training Data Versus Test Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Cross-Validation? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Calculating the MSE Manually Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Simple 2D Data Points in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF2, tf.GradientTape(), and Linear Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Keras Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Keras Namespaces in TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the tf.keras.layers Namespace Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the tf.keras.activations Namespace Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the tf.keras.datasets Namespace Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with the tf.keras.experimental Namespace Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Other tf.keras Namespaces Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 Keras versus “Standalone” Keras Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Keras-Based Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and Linear Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with tf.estimator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Summary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Working with Classifiers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Classification? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Classifiers? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Common Classifiers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Linear Classifiers? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is KNN? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How to Handle a Tie in kNN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Decision Trees? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Random Forests? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are SVMS? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Trade-offs of SVMs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Bayesian Inference? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bayes’s Theorem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Some Bayesian Terminology Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is MAP? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Why Use Bayes’s Theorem? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a Bayesian Classifier? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Types of Naive Bayes Classifiers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Training Classifiers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Evaluating Classifiers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Activation Functions? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Why Do We Need Activation Functions? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Do Activation Functions Work? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Common Activation Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Activation Functions in Python Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The ReLU and ELU Activation Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Advantages and Disadvantages of ReLU Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ELU Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sigmoid, Softmax, and Hardmax Similarities Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Softmax Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Softplus Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tanh Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Sigmoid, Softmax, and Hardmax Differences Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF 2 and the Sigmoid Activation Function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Logistic Regression? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting a Threshold Value Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Logistic Regression: Assumptions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Linearly Separable Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TensorFlow and Logistic Regression Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and Early Stopping (1) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and Early Stopping (2) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and Metrics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Distributed Training in TF 2 (Optional) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using tf.distribute.Strategy with Keras Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Summary Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Deep Learning? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Hyperparameters? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deep Learning Architectures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Problems That Deep Learning Can Solve Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Challenges in Deep Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Perceptrons? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Definition of the Perceptron Function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Detailed View of a Perceptron Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Anatomy of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Model Initialization Hyperparameters Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Activation Hyperparameter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Cost Function Hyperparameter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Optimizer Hyperparameter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Learning Rate Hyperparameter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Dropout Rate Hyperparameter Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Backward Error Propagation? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Activation Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How Are Data Points Correctly Classified? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and the XOR Function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A High-Level View of CNNs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Minimalistic CNN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Convolutional Layer (Conv2D) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The ReLU Activation Function Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Max Pooling Layer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
CNNs with Audio Signals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
CNNs and NLPs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Displaying an Image in the MNIST Dataset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras and the MNIST Dataset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keras, CNNs, and the MNIST Dataset Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is an RNN? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Anatomy of an RNN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is BPTT? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with RNNs and TF 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is an LSTM? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Anatomy of an LSTM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bidirectional LSTMs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
LSTM Formulas Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
LSTM Hyperparameter Tuning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are GRUs? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Autoencoders? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Autoencoders and PCA Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Variational Autoencoders? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are GANs? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The VAE-GAN Model Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with NLP (Natural Language Processing) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
NLP Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Transformer Architecture and NLP Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Transformer-XL Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
NLP and Deep Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
NLP and Reinforcement Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Data Preprocessing Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Popular NLP Algorithms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is an n-Gram? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is a Skip-Gram? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is BoW? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Term Frequency? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Inverse Document Frequency (idf)? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is tf-idf? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Word Embeddings? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ELMo, ULMFit, OpenAI, and BERT Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Translatotron? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Reinforcement Learning (RL)? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are NFAs? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Are Markov Chains? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Epsilon-Greedy Algorithm Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Bellman Equation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Important Concepts in RL Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
RL Toolkits and Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TF-Agents Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
What Is Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Miscellaneous Topics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TFX (TensorFlow Extended) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TensorFlow Probability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
TensorFlow Graphics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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