Neural Network Construction
Learn about TensorFlow’s sequential model building, from initializing layers to model fitting.
TensorFlow provides a simple-to-implement
- Sequential
- Functional
- Model subclassing
The ease of their use is in the same order. Most modeling requirements are covered by the sequential and functional approaches.
The sequential approach
Sequential is the simplest approach. In this approach, models that have a linear stack of layers and the layers communicate sequentially are constructed. Models in which layers communicate non-sequentially (for example, residual networks) cannot be modeled with a sequential approach. Functional or model subclassing is used in such cases.
Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) are sequential models. Therefore, a sequential model is initialized, as shown below.
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