[skohan]

What's the use-case for tensorflow on web/mobile web? I thought tensorflow was mostly for training models, and my assumption would be that this is mostly relevant for the server/workstation context, but maybe I'm missing something

[alquemist]

Some people care to deliver ML-enhanced services without peeking over the shoulder of their users for every keypress. Client inference performance matters.

[netheril96]

> I thought tensorflow was mostly for training models

You need tensorflow to actually use the models trained with tensorflow.

[the_svd_doctor]

Why? You could export your weights and everything into any other framework, no?

[hansvm]

Probably, but looking at that chain of comments I think the emphasis was that you need _something_ like tensorflow to do inference client-side using pre-trained models, not that you need _tensorflow_ specifically to operate on tensorflow models.

[postalrat]

Wouldn't you need the topology as well?

[gridlockd]

Tensorflow-JS is that framework that you export to from Tensorflow. Tensorflow-JS is not Tensorflow, it's just the same brand.

[dzhiurgis]

I was curious of iPhone performance - looks like latest one will outperform my MacBook again...