Volume 18 • Issue 1 • PP: 114-125 • 2026
Optimizing Neural Network Architectures with TensorFlow and Keras for Scalable Deep Learning
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Deep studying architectures face fundamental demanding situations in balancing overall performance optimization, computational scalability, and operational interpretability. Current strategies show off an essential fragmentation: neural architecture search (NAS) techniques perform independently of interpretability requirements, while scalability answers remain detached from structure optimization pipelines. This disconnect hinders the improvement of a unified workflow from architecture layout to interpretable deployment. We endorse DeepOptiFrame, a TensorFlow/Keras-primarily based Python framework that combines three middle capabilities: (1) superior optimization algorithms (BOHB, Hyperband) with useful resource-restrained multi-objective search, (2) distributed training acceleration across GPU/GPU clusters via Horovod integration and blended-precision strategies, and (3) GPU-increased interpretability gear (SHAP, LIME) incorporated without delay into the education pipeline. Our framework demonstrates large experimental improvements: a 15-20% accuracy growth at the CIFAR-a hundred and ImageNet benchmarks compared to today's baselines, a 65% education speedup whilst scaled to eight GPUs with close to-linear performance, and a 30% development in interpretability reliability, as measured via the Mean Confidence Decrease metric. This implementation additionally reduces reminiscence intake via forty% throughout gradient checkpoints even as keeping numerical balance. These advances establish a new paradigm for coherent deep learning development, simultaneously improving overall performance, scalability, and transparency inside unified workflow surroundings.
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