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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 5: Hybrid Advanced Models

In the previous two chapters, we learned extensively about the various convolutional and recurrent network architectures available, along with their implementations in PyTorch. In this chapter, we will take a look at some other deep learning model architectures that have proven to be successful on various machine learning tasks and are neither purely convolutional nor recurrent in nature. We will continue from where we left off in both Chapter 3, Deep CNN Architectures, and Chapter 4, Deep Recurrent Model Architectures.

First, we will explore transformers, which, as we learnt toward the end of Chapter 4, Deep Recurrent Model Architectures, have outperformed recurrent architectures on various sequential tasks. Then, we will pick up from the EfficientNets discussion at the end of Chapter 3, Deep CNN Architectures, and explore the idea of generating randomly wired neural networks, also known as RandWireNNs.

With this chapter, we aim to conclude...