Broadcasting operation
An operation that uses numpy-style broadcasting to make the shapes of its tensor arguments compatible.
Device
A piece of hardware that can run computation and has its own address space, like a GPU or CPU.
eval
A method of Tensor that returns the value of the Tensor, triggering any
graph computation required to determine the value. You may only call eval()
on a Tensor in a graph that has been launched in a session.
Feed
TensorFlow's mechanism for patching a tensor directly into any node in a graph
launched in a session. You apply feeds when you trigger the execution of a
graph, not when you build the graph. A feed temporarily replaces a node with a
tensor value. You supply feed data as an argument to a run() or eval() call
that initiates computation. After the run the feed disappears and the original
node definition remains. You usually designate specific nodes to be "feed"
nodes by using tf.placeholder() to create them. See
Basic Usage for more information.
Fetch
TensorFlow's mechanism for retrieving tensors from a graph launched in a
session. You retrieve fetches when you trigger the execution of a graph, not
when you build the graph. To fetch the tensor value of a node or nodes,
execute the graph with a run() call on the Session object and pass a list of
names of nodes to retrieve. See Basic Usage
for more information.
Graph
Describes a computation as a directed acyclic
graph. Nodes in the graph represent operations that must be
performed. Edges in the graph represent either data or control
dependencies. GraphDef is the proto used to describe a graph to the
system (it is the API), and consists of a collection of NodeDefs (see
below). A GraphDef may be converted to a (C++) Graph object which is
easier to operate on.
IndexedSlices
In the Python API, TensorFlow's representation of a tensor that is sparse
along only its first dimension. If the tensor is k-dimensional, an
IndexedSlices instance logically represents a collection of
(k-1)-dimensional slices along the tensor's first dimension. The indices of
the slices are stored concatenated into a single 1-dimensional vector, and the
corresponding slices are concatenated to form a single k-dimensional tensor. Use
SparseTensor if the sparsity is not restricted to the first dimension.
Node
An element of a graph.
Describes how to invoke a specific operation as one node in a specific
computation Graph, including the values for any attrs needed to configure
the operation. For operations that are polymorphic, the attrs include
sufficient information to completely determine the signature of the Node.
See graph.proto for details.
Op (operation)
In the TensorFlow runtime: A type of computation such as add or matmul or
concat. You can add new ops to the runtime as described how to add an
op.
In the Python API: A node in the graph. Ops are represented by instances of
the class tf.Operation. The
type property of an Operation indicates the run operation for the node,
such as add or matmul.
Run
The action of executing ops in a launched graph. Requires that the graph be
launched in a Session.
In the Python API: A method of the Session class:
tf.Session.run. You can pass tensors
to feed and fetch to the run() call.
In the C++ API: A method of the tensorflow::Session.
Session
A runtime object representing a launched graph. Provides methods to execute ops in the graph.
In the Python API: tf.Session
In the C++ API: class used to launch a graph and run operations
tensorflow::Session.
Shape
The number of dimensions of a tensor and their sizes.
In a launched graph: Property of the tensors that flow between nodes. Some ops have strong requirements on the shape of their inputs and report errors at runtime if these are not met.
In the Python API: Attribute of a Python Tensor in the graph construction
API. During constructions the shape of tensors can be only partially known, or
even unknown. See
tf.TensorShape
In the C++ API: class used to represent the shape of tensors
tensorflow::TensorShape.
SparseTensor
In the Python API, TensorFlow's representation of a tensor that is sparse in
arbitrary positions. A SparseTensor stores only the non-empty values along
with their indices, using a dictionary-of-keys format. In other words, if
there are m non-empty values, it maintains a length-m vector of values and
a matrix with m rows of indices. For efficiency, SparseTensor requires the
indices to be sorted along increasing dimension number, i.e. in row-major
order. Use IndexedSlices if the sparsity is only along the first dimension.
Tensor
A Tensor is a typed multi-dimensional array. For example, a 4-D
array of floating point numbers representing a mini-batch of images with
dimensions [batch, height, width, channel].
In a launched graph: Type of the data that flow between nodes.
In the Python API: class used to represent the output and inputs of ops added
to the graph tf.Tensor. Instances of
this class do not hold data.
In the C++ API: class used to represent tensors returned from a
Session::Run() call
tensorflow::Tensor.
Instances of this class hold data.