Glossary term
Glossary term
Infrastructure and Serving
A large-scale, distributed, machine learning platform. The term also refers to the base API layer in the TensorFlow stack, which supports general computation on dataflow graphs.
Although TensorFlow is primarily used for machine learning, you may also use TensorFlow for non-ML tasks that require numerical computation using dataflow graphs.
Created for this library
An ML platform team uses TensorFlow for production serving because of its mature deployment story.
A startup uses TensorFlow for its production models so the same framework is used across training and serving.
An ML team teaches its new engineers TensorFlow as the production framework after they prototype in higher-level libraries.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License