Introduction to Tensorflow
Copyright 2019 The TensorFlow Authors
TensorFlow 2 quickstart for beginners
This short introduction uses Keras to:
Load a prebuilt dataset.
Build a neural network machine learning model that classifies images.
Train this neural network.
Evaluate the accuracy of the model.
This tutorial is a Google Colaboratory notebook. Python programs are run directly in the browser—a great way to learn and use TensorFlow. To follow this tutorial, run the notebook in Google Colab by clicking the button at the top of this page.
In Colab, connect to a Python runtime: At the top-right of the menu bar, select CONNECT.
Run all the notebook code cells: Select Runtime > Run all.
Set up TensorFlow
If you are following along in your own development environment, rather than Colab, see the install guide for setting up TensorFlow for development.
Note: Make sure you have upgraded to the latest pip
to install the TensorFlow 2 package if you are using your own development environment. See the install guidefor details.
Load a dataset
Build a machine learning model
For each example, the model returns a vector of logits or log-odds scores, one for each class.
The tf.nn.softmax
function converts these logits to probabilities for each class:
Note: It is possible to bake the tf.nn.softmax
function into the activation function for the last layer of the network. While this can make the model output more directly interpretable, this approach is discouraged as it's impossible to provide an exact and numerically stable loss calculation for all models when using a softmax output.
Define a loss function for training using losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy
, which takes a vector of logits and a True
index and returns a scalar loss for each example.
This loss is equal to the negative log probability of the true class: The loss is zero if the model is sure of the correct class.
This untrained model gives probabilities close to random (1/10 for each class), so the initial loss should be close to -tf.math.log(1/10) ~= 2.3
.
Before you start training, configure and compile the model using Keras Model.compile
. Set the optimizer
class to adam
, set the loss
to the loss_fn
function you defined earlier, and specify a metric to be evaluated for the model by setting the metrics
parameter to accuracy
.
Train and evaluate your model
The Model.evaluate
method checks the models performance, usually on a "Validation-set" or "Test-set".
The image classifier is now trained to ~98% accuracy on this dataset. To learn more, read the TensorFlow tutorials.
If you want your model to return a probability, you can wrap the trained model, and attach the softmax to it:
Conclusion
Congratulations! You have trained a machine learning model using a prebuilt dataset using the Keras API.
For more examples of using Keras, check out the tutorials. To learn more about building models with Keras, read the guides. If you want learn more about loading and preparing data, see the tutorials on image data loading or CSV data loading.
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