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Deep Learning with PyTorch Quick Start Guide

By : David Julian
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Deep Learning with PyTorch Quick Start Guide

By: David Julian

Overview of this book

PyTorch is extremely powerful and yet easy to learn. It provides advanced features, such as supporting multiprocessor, distributed, and parallel computation. This book is an excellent entry point for those wanting to explore deep learning with PyTorch to harness its power. This book will introduce you to the PyTorch deep learning library and teach you how to train deep learning models without any hassle. We will set up the deep learning environment using PyTorch, and then train and deploy different types of deep learning models, such as CNN, RNN, and autoencoders. You will learn how to optimize models by tuning hyperparameters and how to use PyTorch in multiprocessor and distributed environments. We will discuss long short-term memory network (LSTMs) and build a language model to predict text. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with PyTorch's capabilities and be able to utilize the library to train your neural networks with relative ease.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

Now that you have an understanding of the foundations of deep learning, you should be well placed to apply this knowledge to specific learning problems that you are interested in. In this chapter, we have developed an out-of-the-box solution for image classification using pretrained models. As you have seen, this is quite simple to implement, and can be applied to almost any image classification problem you can think of. Of course, the actual performance in each situation will depend on the number and quality of images presented, as well as the precise tuning of the hyperparameters associated with each model and task.

You can generally get very good results on most image classification tasks by simply running the pretrained models with default parameters. This requires no theoretical knowledge, apart from installing the programs' running environment. You will find...