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Mastering PyTorch

By : Ashish Ranjan Jha
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Mastering PyTorch

By: Ashish Ranjan Jha

Overview of this book

Deep learning is driving the AI revolution, and PyTorch is making it easier than ever before for anyone to build deep learning applications. This PyTorch book will help you uncover expert techniques to get the most out of your data and build complex neural network models. The book starts with a quick overview of PyTorch and explores using convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for image classification. You'll then work with recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures and transformers for sentiment analysis. As you advance, you'll apply deep learning across different domains, such as music, text, and image generation using generative models and explore the world of generative adversarial networks (GANs). You'll not only build and train your own deep reinforcement learning models in PyTorch but also deploy PyTorch models to production using expert tips and techniques. Finally, you'll get to grips with training large models efficiently in a distributed manner, searching neural architectures effectively with AutoML, and rapidly prototyping models using PyTorch and fast.ai. By the end of this PyTorch book, you'll be able to perform complex deep learning tasks using PyTorch to build smart artificial intelligence models.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: PyTorch Overview
4
Section 2: Working with Advanced Neural Network Architectures
8
Section 3: Generative Models and Deep Reinforcement Learning
13
Section 4: PyTorch in Production Systems

Serving a PyTorch model using TorchServe

TorchServe, released in April 2020, is a dedicated PyTorch model-serving framework. Using the functionalities offered by TorchServe, we can serve multiple models at the same time with low prediction latency and without having to write much custom code. Furthermore, TorchServe offers features such as model versioning, metrics monitoring, and data preprocessing and post-processing.

This clearly makes TorchServe a more advanced model-serving alternative than the model microservice we developed in the previous section. However, making custom model microservices still proves to be a powerful solution for complicated machine learning pipelines (which is more common than we might think).

In this section, we will continue working with our handwritten digits classification model and demonstrate how to serve it using TorchServe. After reading this section, you should be able to get started with TorchServe and go further in utilizing its full set...