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href="/2.18/api/models/sequential">The Sequential class</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/models/model_training_apis">Model training APIs</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/models/model_saving_apis/">Saving & serialization</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="layers-api"><a href="/2.18/api/layers/">Layers API</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/base_layer">The base Layer class</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/activations">Layer activations</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/initializers">Layer weight initializers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/regularizers">Layer weight regularizers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/constraints">Layer weight constraints</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/core_layers/">Core layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/convolution_layers/">Convolution layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/pooling_layers/">Pooling layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/recurrent_layers/">Recurrent layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/preprocessing_layers/">Preprocessing layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/normalization_layers/">Normalization layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/regularization_layers/">Regularization layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/attention_layers/">Attention layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/reshaping_layers/">Reshaping layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/merging_layers/">Merging layers</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/layers/activation_layers/">Activation layers</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="callbacks-api"><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/">Callbacks API</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/base_callback">Base Callback class</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/model_checkpoint">ModelCheckpoint</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/backup_and_restore">BackupAndRestore</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/tensorboard">TensorBoard</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/early_stopping">EarlyStopping</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/learning_rate_scheduler">LearningRateScheduler</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/reduce_lr_on_plateau">ReduceLROnPlateau</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/remote_monitor">RemoteMonitor</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/lambda_callback">LambdaCallback</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/terminate_on_nan">TerminateOnNaN</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/csv_logger">CSVLogger</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/callbacks/progbar_logger">ProgbarLogger</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="optimizers"><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/">Optimizers</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/sgd">SGD</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/rmsprop">RMSprop</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adam">Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adamw">AdamW</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adadelta">Adadelta</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adagrad">Adagrad</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adamax">Adamax</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/adafactor">Adafactor</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/Nadam">Nadam</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/optimizers/ftrl">Ftrl</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="metrics"><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/">Metrics</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/accuracy_metrics">Accuracy metrics</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/probabilistic_metrics">Probabilistic metrics</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/regression_metrics">Regression metrics</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/classification_metrics">Classification metrics based on True/False positives & negatives</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/segmentation_metrics">Image segmentation metrics</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/metrics/hinge_metrics">Hinge metrics for "maximum-margin" classification</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="losses"><a href="/2.18/api/losses/">Losses</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/losses/probabilistic_losses">Probabilistic losses</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/losses/regression_losses">Regression losses</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/losses/hinge_losses">Hinge losses for "maximum-margin" classification</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="data-loading"><a href="/2.18/api/data_loading/">Data loading</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/data_loading/image">Image data loading</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/data_loading/timeseries">Timeseries data loading</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/data_loading/text">Text data loading</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/data_loading/audio">Audio data loading</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="builtin-small-datasets"><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/">Built-in small datasets</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/mnist">MNIST digits classification dataset</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/cifar10">CIFAR10 small images classification dataset</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/cifar100">CIFAR100 small images classification dataset</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/imdb">IMDB movie review sentiment classification dataset</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/reuters">Reuters newswire classification dataset</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/fashion_mnist">Fashion MNIST dataset, an alternative to MNIST</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/datasets/boston_housing">Boston Housing price regression dataset</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="keras-applications"><a href="/2.18/api/applications/">Keras Applications</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/xception">Xception</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/efficientnet">EfficientNet B0 to B7</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/efficientnet_v2">EfficientNetV2 B0 to B3 and S, M, L</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/convnext">ConvNeXt Tiny, Small, Base, Large, XLarge</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/vgg">VGG16 and VGG19</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/resnet">ResNet and ResNetV2</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/mobilenet">MobileNet, MobileNetV2, and MobileNetV3</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/densenet">DenseNet</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/nasnet">NasNetLarge and NasNetMobile</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/inceptionv3">InceptionV3</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/applications/inceptionresnetv2">InceptionResNetV2</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="mixed-precision"><a href="/2.18/api/mixed_precision/">Mixed precision</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/mixed_precision/policy">Mixed precision policy API</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/mixed_precision/loss_scale_optimizer">LossScaleOptimizer</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="utilities"><a href="/2.18/api/utils/">Utilities</a></h3> <ul> <li><a href="/2.18/api/utils/model_plotting_utils">Model plotting utilities</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/utils/feature_space">Structured data preprocessing utilities</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/utils/python_utils">Python & NumPy utilities</a></li> <li><a href="/2.18/api/utils/backend_utils">Backend utilities</a></li> </ul> 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