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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)

Caffe2 model visualization

DL models contain a high number of layers. Layers have many parameters, such as their name, type, weight dimensions, layer-type-specific parameters, input, and output tensor names. While typical feedforward network structures do not have cycles, the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and other network structures have cycles and other topologies. So, the ability to visualize the structure of a DL model is important, both for researchers devising new networks to solve problems, and for practitioners using new networks.

Visualization using Caffe2 net_drawer

Caffe2 ships with a simple visualization tool written in Python named net_drawer. This Python script can be found in your Caffe2 installation directory...