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2. Introduction to TensorFlow

Samit Ahlawat1  
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Irvington, NJ, USA
 

TensorFlow is an open source, high-performance machine learning library developed by Google and released for public use in 2015. It has interfaces for Python, C++, and Java programming languages. It has the option of running on multiple CPUs or GPUs. TensorFlow offers two modes of execution: eager mode that can be run immediately and graph mode that creates a dependency graph and executes nodes in that graph only where needed.

This book uses TensorFlow 2.9.1. Older TensorFlow constructs from version 1 of ...

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