Keras 2.3.0 is the last major release of multi-backend Keras

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  • September 23, 2019
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Keras, the deep learning library written in Python, has a new release. Version 2.3.0 is now the first release that supports TensorFlow 2.0. This version adds a few breaking changes and API changes and maintains TensorFlow 1.14 and 1.13 compatibility.

For those new to the API, a quick introduction: Keras is a deep learning that’s user friendly and uses models as a way to organize layers. It allows for fast prototyping and supports convolutional networks and recurrent networks. It was created by François Chollet, author of Deep Learning with Python.

Let’s have a look under the hood and see what the new version includes, as well as the latest news and plans going forward.

Last major multi-backend release

Take note: this is the last major release of multi-backend Keras. This means that afterward, users are recommended to switch their code to tf.keras in TensorFlow 2.0. From now on, development will focus on tf.keras.

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Maintainance for multi-backend Keras will continue for six months. However no new API changes will be ported and only bug fixes will be merged.

tf.keras is TensorFlow’s API for building and training deep learning modules. For more information on getting started, importing it into your TensorFlow program, and how to start building models, refer to the informative guide.

According to the GitHub changelog, the benefits of using tf.keras are numerous.

It implements the same Keras 2.3.0 API (so switching should be as easy as changing the Keras import statements), but it has many advantages for TensorFlow users, such as support for eager execution, distribution, TPU training, and generally far better integration between low-level TensorFlow and high-level concepts like Layer and Model. It is also better maintained.

https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/2.3.0

Keras 2.3.0

Version 2.3.0 adds a long list of API changes. From the changelog, here are some of the highlights arriving with the latest release:

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API changes

These API changes bring the release in sync with the tf.keras API.

  • Add size(x) to backend API
  • add_metric method added to Layer / Model
  • Class-based losses added:
    • MeanSquaredError
    • MeanAbsoluteError
    • MeanAbsolutePercentageError
    • MeanSquaredLogarithmicError
    • BinaryCrossentropy
    • CategoricalCrossentropy
    • SparseCategoricalCrossentropy
    • Hinge
    • SquaredHinge
    • CategoricalHinge
    • Poisson
    • LogCosh
    • KLDivergence
    • Huber
  • Renamed lr to learning_rate
  • All Layer subclasses: Layers set as attributes of a Layer are now tracked.
  • Class-based metrics introduced. Metrics can now be stateful.
    • Accuracy
    • MeanSquaredError
    • Hinge
    • CategoricalHinge
    • SquaredHinge
    • FalsePositives
    • TruePositives
    • FalseNegatives
    • TrueNegatives
    • BinaryAccuracy
    • CategoricalAccuracy
    • TopKCategoricalAccuracy
    • LogCoshError
    • Poisson
    • KLDivergence
    • CosineSimilarity
    • MeanAbsoluteError
    • MeanAbsolutePercentageError
    • MeanSquaredError
    • MeanSquaredLogarithmicError
    • RootMeanSquaredError
    • BinaryCrossentropy
    • CategoricalCrossentropy
    • Precision
    • Recall
    • AUC
    • SparseCategoricalAccuracy
    • SparseTopKCategoricalAccuracy
    • SparseCategoricalCrossentropy
  • Deprecated argument decay for all optimizers.

Breaking changes

A few breaking changes come with this release.

  • TensorBoard callback: When used with TensorFlow 2.0, batch_size argument, write_grads , embeddings_freq,  embeddings_layer_names,  embeddings_metadata, and embeddings_data are all deprecated/ignored.
  • Loss aggregation mechanism changed to sum over batch size
  • Metrics and losses now reported under the same name, set by the user.
  • Default recurrent activation changed to sigmoid in RNN layers.

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