LSTM with Keras functional API (1)

There are two main types of models available in Keras: the Sequential model, and the tf.keras.Model class. In this post, we will focus on the latter.

Model is a class that can group layers into an object with training and inference features. There are two ways to instantiate a Model:

1. With the basic “functional API”

We start from the input, and chain layer calls to specify the model’s forward pass, and this model will include all layers required in the computation of outputs given inputs.

from keras.models import Model
from keras.layers import Input, Dense

inputs = Input(shape=(32,))
outputs = Dense(32)(inputs)
model = Model(inputs = inputs, outputs = outputs)

2. By subclassing the Model class

We can also build