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Mastering PyTorch - Second Edition

By : Ashish Ranjan Jha
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Book Image

Mastering PyTorch - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Ashish Ranjan Jha

Overview of this book

PyTorch is making it easier than ever before for anyone to build deep learning applications. This PyTorch deep learning book will help you uncover expert techniques to get the most out of your data and build complex neural network models. You’ll build convolutional neural networks for image classification and recurrent neural networks and transformers for sentiment analysis. As you advance, you'll apply deep learning across different domains, such as music, text, and image generation, using generative models, including diffusion models. You'll not only build and train your own deep reinforcement learning models in PyTorch but also learn to optimize model training using multiple CPUs, GPUs, and mixed-precision training. You’ll deploy PyTorch models to production, including mobile devices. Finally, you’ll discover the PyTorch ecosystem and its rich set of libraries. These libraries will add another set of tools to your deep learning toolbelt, teaching you how to use fastai to prototype models and PyTorch Lightning to train models. You’ll discover libraries for AutoML and explainable AI (XAI), create recommendation systems, and build language and vision transformers with Hugging Face. By the end of this book, you'll be able to perform complex deep learning tasks using PyTorch to build smart artificial intelligence models.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Optimization schedule

So far, we have spoken of how a neural network structure is built. In order to train a neural network, we need to adopt an optimization schedule. Like any other parameter-based machine learning model, a deep learning model is trained by tuning its parameters. The parameters are tuned through the process of backpropagation, wherein the final or output layer of the neural network yields a loss. This loss is calculated with the help of a loss function that takes in the neural network’s final layer’s outputs and the corresponding ground truth target values. This loss is then backpropagated to the previous layers using gradient descent and the chain rule of differentiation.

The parameters or weights at each layer are accordingly modified in order to minimize the loss. The extent of modification is determined by a coefficient, which varies from 0 to 1, also known as the learning rate. This whole procedure of updating the weights of a neural network...