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Caffe2 Quick Start Guide

By : Ashwin Nanjappa
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Caffe2 Quick Start Guide

By: Ashwin Nanjappa

Overview of this book

Caffe2 is a popular deep learning library used for fast and scalable training, and inference of deep learning models on different platforms. This book introduces you to the Caffe2 framework and demonstrates how you can leverage its power to build, train, and deploy efficient neural network models at scale. The Caffe 2 Quick Start Guide will help you in installing Caffe2, composing networks using its operators, training models, and deploying models to different architectures. The book will also guide you on how to import models from Caffe and other frameworks using the ONNX interchange format. You will then cover deep learning accelerators such as CPU and GPU and learn how to deploy Caffe2 models for inference on accelerators using inference engines. Finally, you'll understand how to deploy Caffe2 to a diverse set of hardware, using containers on the cloud and resource-constrained hardware such as Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will not only be able to compose and train popular neural network models with Caffe2, but also deploy them on accelerators, to the cloud and on resource-constrained platforms such as mobile and embedded hardware.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Building a computation graph

In this section, we will learn how to build a network in Caffe2 using model_helper. (model_helper was introduced earlier in this chapter.) To maintain the simplicity of this example, we use mathematical operators that require no trained parameters. So, our network is a computation graph rather than a neural network because it has no trained parameters that were learned from training data. The network we will build is illustrated by the graph shown in Figure 2.5:

Figure 2.5: Our simple computation graph with three operators

As you can see, we provide two inputs to the network: a matrix, A, and a vector, B. A MatMul operator is applied to A and B and its result is fed to a Sigmoid function, designated by σ in Figure 2.5. The result of the Sigmoid function is fed to a SoftMax function. (We will learn a bit more about the Sigmoid and SoftMax operators...