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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

Model serving in PyTorch

In this section, we will begin by building a simple PyTorch inference pipeline that can make predictions given some input data and the location of a previously trained and saved PyTorch model. We will proceed thereafter to place this inference pipeline on a model server that can listen to incoming data requests and return predictions. Finally, we will advance from developing a model server to creating a model microservice using Docker.

Creating a PyTorch model inference pipeline

We will work with the handwritten digits image classification CNN model that we built in Chapter 1, Overview of Deep Learning Using PyTorch, on the MNIST dataset. Using this trained model, we will build an inference pipeline that shall be able to predict a digit between 0 and 9 for a given handwritten-digit input image.

For the process of building and training the model, please refer to the Training a neural network using PyTorch section of Chapter 1, Overview of Deep Learning...