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title: TensorFlow, Large-scale machine learning on heterogeneous systems
abstract: TensorFlow is a machine learning system that operates at large scale and in heterogeneous environments. TensorFlow uses dataflow graphs to represent computation, shared state, and the operations that mutate that state. It maps the nodes of a dataflow graph across many machines in a cluster, and within a machine across multiple computational devices, including multicore CPUs, general purpose GPUs, and custom-designed ASICs known as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). This architecture gives flexibility to the application developer, whereas in previous parameter server designs the management of shared state is built into the system, TensorFlow enables developers to experiment with novel optimizations and training algorithms. TensorFlow supports a variety of applications, with a focus on training and inference on deep neural networks. Several Google services use TensorFlow in production, we have released it as an open-source project, and it has become widely used for machine learning research. In this paper, we describe the TensorFlow dataflow model and demonstrate the compelling performance that TensorFlow achieves for several real-world applications.
authors:
- family-names: Abadi
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- family-names: Agarwal
given-names: Ashish
- family-names: Barham
given-names: Paul
- family-names: Brevdo
given-names: Eugene
- family-names: Chen
given-names: Zhifeng
- family-names: Citro
given-names: Craig
- family-names: Corrado
given-names: Greg S.
- family-names: Davis
given-names: Andy
- family-names: Dean
given-names: Jeffrey
- family-names: Devin
given-names: Matthieu
- family-names: Ghemawat
given-names: Sanjay
- family-names: Goodfellow
given-names: Ian
- family-names: Harp
given-names: Andrew
- family-names: Irving
given-names: Geoffrey
- family-names: Isard
given-names: Michael
- family-names: Jozefowicz
given-names: Rafal
- family-names: Jia
given-names: Yangqing
- family-names: Kaiser
given-names: Lukasz
- family-names: Kudlur
given-names: Manjunath
- family-names: Levenberg
given-names: Josh
- family-names: Mané
given-names: Dan
- family-names: Schuster
given-names: Mike
- family-names: Monga
given-names: Rajat
- family-names: Moore
given-names: Sherry
- family-names: Murray
given-names: Derek
- family-names: Olah
given-names: Chris
- family-names: Shlens
given-names: Jonathon
- family-names: Steiner
given-names: Benoit
- family-names: Sutskever
given-names: Ilya
- family-names: Talwar
given-names: Kunal
- family-names: Tucker
given-names: Paul
- family-names: Vanhoucke
given-names: Vincent
- family-names: Vasudevan
given-names: Vijay
- family-names: Viégas
given-names: Fernanda
- family-names: Vinyals
given-names: Oriol
- family-names: Warden
given-names: Pete
- family-names: Wattenberg
given-names: Martin
- family-names: Wicke
given-names: Martin
- family-names: Yu
given-names: Yuan
- family-names: Zheng
given-names: Xiaoqiang
identifiers:
- type: doi
value: 10.5281/zenodo.4724125
description: The concept DOI for the collection containing all versions of the Citation File Format.
date-released: "2015-11-09"
license: "Apache-2.0"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4724125