Glossary term
Glossary term
Infrastructure and Serving
A TensorFlow API for constructing a deep neural network as a composition of layers. The Layers API lets you build different types of layers, such as:
tf.layers.Dense for a fully-connected layer.
tf.layers.Conv2D for a convolutional layer.
The Layers API follows the Keras layers API conventions. That is, aside from a different prefix, all functions in the Layers API have the same names and signatures as their counterparts in the Keras layers API.
Created for this library
An ML team maintains older models built with the Layers API while migrating new work to Keras-style code.
A platform team documents the Layers API for legacy reference so engineers can interpret older training code during migrations.
A startup engineer uses the Layers API in a maintenance role to keep a legacy production model trainable until full migration is complete.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License