TensorFlow:

TensorFlow is a free software library focused on machine learning

created by Google. TensorFlow derives its name from the
multidimensional arrays known as tensors, which are used by the
neural networks for different operations. TensorFlow is considered
the successor of the closed-source application DistBelief and is
presently used by Google for research and production purposes.
Compared to DistBelief, TensorFlow is faster, smarter and more
flexible and can be easily adaptable to new areas and products. It
was mainly created for deep neural network research and for
facilitating machine learning, though TensorFlow has been used in a
wide array of other areas as well.
TensorFlow functions by sorting through layers of data (also known
as nodes) as part of learning. In the first layer, the system determines
the basic features of the object. As deeper movements occur, it looks
for more refined information regarding the object. The sorting of
images is done at a faster rate, thus giving users more valuable
information. TensorFlow is available on different operating systems
such as Linux, Windows, MacOS and also on mobile operating
platforms like iOS and Android. One of the salient features of
TensorFlow is that it is capable of running on multiple CPUs and
GPUs. The computations in TensorFlow are reported as stateful
dataflow graphs or the Computational Graphs. Currently TensorFlow
is used in over six thousand free online repositories.

Computational Graphs:

A computational graph also called the data flow graph, is a directed

graph where the nodes correspond to operations or variables.
Variables can feed their value into operations, and operations can
feed their output into other operations. This way, every node in the
graph defines a function of the variables.
The values that are fed into the nodes and come out of the nodes are
called tensors, which is just a fancy word for a multi-dimensional
array. Hence, it subsumes scalars, vectors and matrices as well as
tensors of a higher rank. The concept of a computational graph
becomes more useful once the computations become more
complex.

Applications Of TensorFlow:

There are many applications using TensorFlow. Many IT giants like

Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Apple, and Microsoft use
TensorFlow. Other applications include:
a) On-Device Computer Vision for OCR
Organization: Google
Description: On-device computer vision model to do optical
character recognition to enable real-time translation.
b) RankBrain
Organization: Google
Description: A large-scale deployment of deep neural nets for
search ranking on www.google.com.
c) SmartReply
Organization: Google
Description: Deep LSTM model to automatically generate email
responses.
d) Translate
Organization: Google
Description: It supports over 100 languages translating from
one to another.
e) Self-driving Cars