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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on both abstracting out the noisy details involved in model training code and the core components to facilitate the rapid prototyping of models. As PyTorch code can often be cluttered with a lot of such noisy detailed code components, we looked at some of the high-level libraries that are built on top of PyTorch. We also learned how to profile PyTorch code during model inference to better benchmark model performance on the CPU and GPU.

In the next chapter, we will move on to another important and promising aspect of applied machine learning that we already touched upon in both Chapter 2, Deep CNN Architectures, and Chapter 5, Advanced Hybrid Models: we will learn how to effectively use PyTorch for Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). By doing this, we will be able to use AutoML to train machine learning models automatically—that is, without having to decide on and define the model architecture.