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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

Chapter 14: Rapid Prototyping with PyTorch

In the preceding chapters, we have seen multiple facets of PyTorch as a Python library. We have seen its use for training vision and text models. We have learned about its extensive application programming interfaces (APIs) for loading and processing datasets. We have explored the model inference support provided by PyTorch. We have also noticed the interoperability of PyTorch across programming languages (such as C++) as well as with other deep learning libraries (such as TensorFlow).

To accommodate all of these features, PyTorch provides a rich and extensive family of APIs, which makes it one of the best deep learning libraries of all time. However, the vast expanse of those features also makes PyTorch a heavy library, and this can sometimes intimidate users about performing streamlined or simple model training and testing tasks.

This chapter is focused on introducing some of the libraries that are built on top of PyTorch and that...