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Caffe2 Quick Start Guide

By : Ashwin Nanjappa
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Caffe2 Quick Start Guide

By: Ashwin Nanjappa

Overview of this book

Caffe2 is a popular deep learning library used for fast and scalable training, and inference of deep learning models on different platforms. This book introduces you to the Caffe2 framework and demonstrates how you can leverage its power to build, train, and deploy efficient neural network models at scale. The Caffe 2 Quick Start Guide will help you in installing Caffe2, composing networks using its operators, training models, and deploying models to different architectures. The book will also guide you on how to import models from Caffe and other frameworks using the ONNX interchange format. You will then cover deep learning accelerators such as CPU and GPU and learn how to deploy Caffe2 models for inference on accelerators using inference engines. Finally, you'll understand how to deploy Caffe2 to a diverse set of hardware, using containers on the cloud and resource-constrained hardware such as Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will not only be able to compose and train popular neural network models with Caffe2, but also deploy them on accelerators, to the cloud and on resource-constrained platforms such as mobile and embedded hardware.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Training Networks

In Chapter 2, Composing Networks, we learned how to create Caffe2 operators and how we can compose networks from them. In this chapter, the focus is on training neural networks. We will learn how to create a network that is intended for training and how to train it using Caffe2. We will continue to use the MNIST dataset as an example. However, instead of the MLP network we built in the previous chapter, we will create a popular network named LeNet.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to training a neural network
  • Building the training network for LeNet
  • Training and monitoring the LeNet network