Keras is currently one of the most commonly used deep learning libraries today. And part of the reason why it's so popular is its API. Keras was built as a high-level API for other deep learning libraries ie Keras as such does not perform low-level tensor operations, instead provides an interface to its backend which are built for such operations. This allows Keras to abstract a lot of the underlying details and allows the programmer to concentrate on the architecture of the model. Currently Keras supports Tensorflow, Theano and CNTK as its backends.
Let's see what I mean. Tensorflow is one of the backends used by Keras. Here's the code for MNIST classification in TensorFlow and Keras. Both models are nearly identical and applies to the same problem. But if you compare the codes you g
