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aymericdamien/tensorflow-examples

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TLDR

Step-by-step TensorFlow examples in Jupyter Notebooks, teaching machine learning from hello world to neural networks.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Hello world basics
      Math operations
      Neural networks
      Image and sequence models
    Learning path
      Linear regression
      Logistic regression
      CNNs for images
      LSTMs for sequences
      GANs for generation
    Practical skills
      Save and load models
      Visualize with TensorBoard
      Load data efficiently
    Format and tools
      Jupyter Notebooks
      Interactive code cells
      MNIST dataset
    Tech support
      TensorFlow v1 and v2
      Python based
      Beginner friendly

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Learn TensorFlow fundamentals by running working code examples in interactive notebooks.

USE CASE 2

Build your first convolutional neural network to recognize handwritten digits.

USE CASE 3

Understand how to structure and train recurrent networks for time-series prediction.

USE CASE 4

Practice saving, loading, and visualizing training progress of machine learning models.

Tech stack

PythonTensorFlowJupyter NotebookMNIST

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

TensorFlow installation and Jupyter setup required; GPU optional but CPU works fine for examples.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

TensorFlow-Examples is a learning collection that helps beginners get started with TensorFlow, Google's popular machine learning framework. The problem it solves is simple: TensorFlow can feel overwhelming at first, and this project provides a step-by-step series of clear, runnable examples that teach concepts gradually without assuming prior expertise. The collection is organized as a curriculum. It starts with the very basics, printing "hello world" using TensorFlow, then works up through basic mathematical operations, simple statistical models like linear and logistic regression, and then into neural networks. These include convolutional networks (good at recognizing images), recurrent networks with LSTM cells (good at sequences and time-series data), and generative adversarial networks (which can create new images from noise). There are also sections on practical topics like saving and loading trained models, visualizing training progress with TensorBoard, and loading different types of data efficiently. Each example exists as a Jupyter Notebook, which is an interactive document where you can read explanations, run code cells one at a time, and immediately see the output. The notebooks support both TensorFlow version 1 and the newer version 2, and most examples use the MNIST dataset, a standard collection of handwritten digit images used as a beginner benchmark in machine learning. Someone would use this project when they are new to machine learning or TensorFlow and want concrete, working code alongside explanations rather than pure theory. It is also useful for developers familiar with other frameworks who want to understand how TensorFlow's specific APIs like layers, models, and datasets work in practice. The tech stack is Python, TensorFlow (both v1 and v2), and Jupyter Notebooks.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm new to TensorFlow. Walk me through the first few examples in tensorflow-examples to understand how to set up and run a basic neural network.
Prompt 2
Show me how to adapt the MNIST CNN example from tensorflow-examples to work with my own image dataset.
Prompt 3
Explain the LSTM example from tensorflow-examples and how I'd modify it to predict stock prices instead of MNIST digits.
Prompt 4
I want to visualize my model training like the TensorBoard example in tensorflow-examples. How do I set that up for my own project?
Prompt 5
Which tensorflow-examples notebook should I study to understand how to save and load trained models for production use?
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