How can TensorFlow be used to train the model for Fashion MNIST dataset in Python?


Tensorflow is a machine learning framework that is provided by Google. It is an open−source framework used in conjunction with Python to implement algorithms, deep learning applications and much more. It is used in research and for production purposes.

The ‘tensorflow’ package can be installed on Windows using the below line of code

pip install tensorflow

Tensor is a data structure used in TensorFlow. It helps connect edges in a flow diagram. This flow diagram is known as the ‘Data flow graph’. Tensors are nothing but multidimensional array or a list.

The ‘Fashion MNIST’ dataset contains images of clothing of different kinds. It contains grayscale images of more than 70 thousand clothes that belong to 10 different categories. These images are of low resolution (28 x 28 pixels).

We are using the Google Colaboratory to run the below code. Google Colab or Colaboratory helps run Python code over the browser and requires zero configuration and free access to GPUs (Graphical Processing Units). Colaboratory has been built on top of Jupyter Notebook. Following is the code −

Example

print("The model is fit to the data")
model.fit(train_images, train_labels, epochs=15)

print("The accuracy is being computed")
test_loss, test_acc = model.evaluate(test_images,  test_labels, verbose=2)
print('\nThe test accuracy is :', test_acc)

Code credithttps://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/keras/classification

Output

The model is fit to the data
Epoch 1/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 4s 2ms/step - loss: 0.6337 - accuracy: 0.7799
Epoch 2/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3806 - accuracy: 0.8622
Epoch 3/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3469 - accuracy: 0.8738
Epoch 4/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3131 - accuracy: 0.8853
Epoch 5/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2962 - accuracy: 0.8918
Epoch 6/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2875 - accuracy: 0.8935
Epoch 7/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2705 - accuracy: 0.8998
Epoch 8/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2569 - accuracy: 0.9023
Epoch 9/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2465 - accuracy: 0.9060
Epoch 10/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2440 - accuracy: 0.9088
Epoch 11/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2300 - accuracy: 0.9143
Epoch 12/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2255 - accuracy: 0.9152
Epoch 13/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2114 - accuracy: 0.9203
Epoch 14/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2101 - accuracy: 0.9211
Epoch 15/15
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.2057 - accuracy: 0.9224
The accuracy is being computed
313/313 - 0s - loss: 0.3528 - accuracy: 0.8806

The test accuracy is : 0.8805999755859375

Explanation

  • The model is trained by first feeding the training data and building a model. The ‘train_images’ and ‘train_labels’ are arrays of input data.

  • The model leanrs to map the image with respective labels.

  • The ‘test_images’ stores the test data.

  • Once the test dataset is utilized, the predictions made are matches with the actual labels of the data in test dataset.

  • The ‘model.fit’ method is called so that it can fit the moel to the training dataset.

  • The ‘model.evaluate’ function gives the accuracy and the loss associated with the training.

Updated on: 20-Jan-2021

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