TensorFlow Estimator & Dataset APIs – Peter Roelants – Medium

When TensorFlow 1.3 was released the Estimator, and related high-level APIs, caught my eye. This is almost a year ago and TensorFlow has had a few updates, with 1.8 the latest version at the time of writing this. Time to revisit these APIs and see how they evolved. The Estimator and Dataset APIs have become more mature since TF 1.3. The Estimator API provides a top-level abstraction and integrates nicely with other APIs such as the Dataset API to build input streams, and the Layers API to build model architectures.