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Mastering PyTorch - Second Edition

By : Ashish Ranjan Jha
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Book Image

Mastering PyTorch - Second Edition

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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

Distributed training on GPUs with CUDA

Throughout the various exercises in this book, you may have noticed a common line of PyTorch code:

device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

This code simply looks for the available compute device and prefers CUDA (GPU) over CPU. The preference is because of the computational speedups that GPUs can provide on regular neural network operations such as matrix multiplications and additions through parallelization. In this section, we look into speeding it up further with the help of distributed training on GPUs. We will develop the work done in the previous exercise. Most of the code looks the same. In the below steps, we will highlight the changes. Executing the script is left for readers as an exercise. The full code is available on GitHub [7]:

  1. While the imports and model architecture definition code are exactly the same as before, there are a few changes in the train() function...