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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)

Building LeNet

We build the LeNet layers required for inference by calling the build_mnist_lenet method in our script:

# Build the LeNet network
softmax_layer = build_mnist_lenet(train_model, data)

Note how we only pass in the image pixel data input to this network and not the labels. The labels are not required for inference; they are required for training or testing to use as ground truth to compare against the prediction of the network’s final layer.

The remainder of the following subsections describe how we add pairs of convolution and pooling layers, the fully connected and ReLU layers, and the final SoftMax layer, to create the LeNet network.

Layer 1 – Convolution

The first layer in LeNet is a convolution...