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Deep Learning with PyTorch

By : Vishnu Subramanian
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Deep Learning with PyTorch

By: Vishnu Subramanian

Overview of this book

Deep learning powers the most intelligent systems in the world, such as Google Voice, Siri, and Alexa. Advancements in powerful hardware, such as GPUs, software frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, and CNTK along with the availability of big data have made it easier to implement solutions to problems in the areas of text, vision, and advanced analytics. This book will get you up and running with one of the most cutting-edge deep learning libraries—PyTorch. PyTorch is grabbing the attention of deep learning researchers and data science professionals due to its accessibility, efficiency and being more native to Python way of development. You'll start off by installing PyTorch, then quickly move on to learn various fundamental blocks that power modern deep learning. You will also learn how to use CNN, RNN, LSTM and other networks to solve real-world problems. This book explains the concepts of various state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet, Inception, and Seq2Seq, without diving deep into the math behind them. You will also learn about GPU computing during the course of the book. You will see how to train a model with PyTorch and dive into complex neural networks such as generative networks for producing text and images. By the end of the book, you'll be able to implement deep learning applications in PyTorch with ease.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Preface

PyTorch is grabbing the attention of data science professionals and deep learning practitioners due to its flexibility and ease of use. This book introduces the fundamental building blocks of deep learning and PyTorch. It demonstrates how to solve real-world problems using a practical approach. You will also learn some of the modern architectures and techniques that are used to crack some cutting-edge research problems.

This book provides the intuition behind various state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet, Inception, and Seq2Seq, without diving deep into the math. It also shows how to do transfer learning, how to speed up transfer learning using pre-computed features, and how to do text classification using embeddings, pretrained embeddings, LSTM, and one-dimensional convolutions.

By the end of the book, you will be a proficient deep learning practitioner who will be able to solve some business problems using the different techniques learned here.