MachineX: Welcome to TensorFlow 2.0

MachineX: Welcome to TensorFlow 2.0

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With the release of Tensorflow 2.0 we have taken another step towards machine dominating human dysphoria. Just kidding!!, this debate is for big people like Elon Musk, Mark Juckerberg or Jack Ma. We are just happy that Tensorflow 2.0 has been released and it will make our life a lot easier as 2.0 is being improved with consideration of freedbacks from its users. As part of the release blog Tensorflow tells that “TensorFlow 2.0 provides a comprehensive ecosystem of tools for developers, enterprises, and researchers who want to push the state-of-the-art in machine learning and build scalable ML-powered applications.”

Tensorflow has invested heavily on improving the low level api. It is now allowing us to build onto the internals of TensorFlow without having to rebuild TensorFlow. As Python becomes the favourite language for machine learning, Tensorflow 2.0 brings better experience with pythonic function execution. 

What about coding with TensorFlow 2.0

With TensorFlow 2.0, we can easily develop our Ml application. It is giving tight integration of Keras into TensorFlow, eager execution by default and if you are an Python developer , it will makes the experience of developing applications as familiar as possible for you.

Moreover, TensorFlow’s low-level API will allows you to build onto the internals of TensorFlow without having to rebuild TensorFlow.

Model deployment with TensorFlow 2.0

TensorFlow 2.0 let you to run your ML model on a variety of runtimes, it may be web, browser, or mobile as they standardized on the SavedModel file format.

You can deploy your models with TensorFlow Serving, for mobile and embedded system TensorFlow Lite , if you want to train and run it in browser or Node.js , there is TensorFlow.js.

GPU support

Kari Briski, Senior Director of Accelerated Computing Software Product Management at NVIDIA once said that : “Machine learning on NVIDIA GPUs and systems allows developers to solve problems that seemed impossible just a few years ago,”. TensorFlow 2.0 is packed with many great GPU acceleration features. Will great to see the amazing AI applications, the community will create with these updated tools.

Some other features

• when building models in TensorFlow, access for training and validation data is paramount. Tensorflow Introduced TensorFlow Datasets, datasets containing a variety of data types such as images, text, video, and more.
• The main API is now non-other than the Keras: The fluid layer of Keras is now integrated on top of the raw TensorFlow code make it simple and easy to use. This would help bring a lot of progress and productivity in the field of Machine Learning and AI
• Eager Command-line : This simple command line helps us to execute operation immediately without using Session.run command.
• Integration of tf.contrib into separate repositories.
• Improved TPU and TPU support and distributed computation support and support for the same up to v3.
• TensorFlow optimization for Android.
• TensorFlow Integration for Swift and IOS based applications.
• Domain-Specific Community Support.
• Extra Support for Model Validation and Reuse.
• End-to-End ML Pipelines and Products available at TensorFlow Hub.

Resources

• started quickly with Google Cloud’s Deep Learning VM Images — no setup required, pre-configured virtual machines to help you build your deep learning projects.
• Head over to tensorflow.org for more about TensorFlow 2.0
• handy guide on how to be effective with all that’s new in TensorFlow 2.0