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TensorFlow is a software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can be used across a range of tasks, but is used mainly for training and inference of neural networks.12 It is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks, alongside others such as PyTorch.3 It is free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

It was developed by the Google Brain team for Google’s internal use in research and production.456 The initial version was released under the Apache License 2.0 in 2015.[^1]7 Google released an updated version, TensorFlow 2.0, in September 2019.8

TensorFlow can be used in a wide variety of programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, C++, and Java,9 facilitating its use in a range of applications in many sectors.

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Footnotes

  1. Abadi, Martín; Barham, Paul; Chen, Jianmin; Chen, Zhifeng; Davis, Andy; Dean, Jeffrey; Devin, Matthieu; Ghemawat, Sanjay; Irving, Geoffrey; Isard, Michael; Kudlur, Manjunath; Levenberg, Josh; Monga, Rajat; Moore, Sherry; Murray, Derek G.; Steiner, Benoit; Tucker, Paul; Vasudevan, Vijay; Warden, Pete; Wicke, Martin; Yu, Yuan; Zheng, Xiaoqiang (2016). TensorFlow: A System for Large-Scale Machine Learning (PDF). Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16). arXiv:1605.08695. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved October 26, 2020. ↩

  2. TensorFlow: Open source machine learning. Google. 2015. Archived from the original on November 11, 2021. “It is machine learning software being used for various kinds of perceptual and language understanding tasks” – Jeffrey Dean, minute 0:47/2:17 from YouTube clip ↩

  3. “Top 30 Open Source Projects”. Open Source Project Velocity by CNCF. Archived from the original on September 3, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023. ↩

  4. Video clip by Google about TensorFlow 2015 at minute 0:15/2:17 ↩

  5. Video clip by Google about TensorFlow 2015 at minute 0:26/2:17 ↩

  6. Dean et al 2015, p. 2 ↩

  7. Metz, Cade (November 9, 2015). “Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence Engine”. Wired. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015. ↩

  8. TensorFlow (September 30, 2019). “TensorFlow 2.0 is now available!”. Medium. Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved November 24, 2019. ↩

  9. “API Documentation”. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2018., ↩