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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)

Introduction to training

In this section, we provide a brief overview of how a neural network is trained. This will help us to understand the later sections where we use Caffe2 to actually train a network.

Components of a neural network

We employ neural networks to solve a particular type of problem for which devising a computer algorithm would be onerous or difficult. For example, in the MNIST problem (introduced in Chapter 2, Composing Networks), handcrafting a complicated algorithm to detect the common stroke patterns for each digit, and thereby determining each digit, would be tedious. Instead, it is easier to design a neural network suited to this problem and then train it (as shown later in this chapter) using a lot...