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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)

Caffe2 model file formats

To be able to use Caffe models in Caffe2, we also need to understand the model file formats that Caffe2 can import. Just like Caffe, Caffe2 also uses Protobuf for serialization and deserialization of its model files. Caffe2 imports a trained model from two files:

  1. The structure of the neural network stored as a predict_net.pb file or as a predict_net.pbtxt file
  2. The weights of the operators of the neural network stored as a init_net.pb file

predict_net file

The predict_net binary file, which is usually named predict_net.pb, holds the list of operators in the neural network, the parameters of each operator, and the connections between the operators. This file is a serialization of the neural network...