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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 and monitoring

We begin the training process by creating the network in the workspace and initializing all the parameter blobs of the network in the workspace. This is done by calling the workspace RunNetOnce method:

# The parameter initialization network only needs to be run once.
workspace.RunNetOnce(train_model.param_init_net)

Next, we ask Caffe2 to create the network in memory:

# Creating an actual network as a C++ object in memory.
# We need this as the object is going to be used a lot
# so we avoid creating an object every single time it is used.
workspace.CreateNet(train_model.net, overwrite=True)

We are finally ready to train. We iterate a predetermined number of times and, in each iteration, we use the workspace RunNet method to run a forward pass and a backward pass.

Training a small network such as our LeNet model is fast both on CPU and GPU. However, many of...