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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By : Mark Ryan
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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By: Mark Ryan

Overview of this book

fastai is an easy-to-use deep learning framework built on top of PyTorch that lets you rapidly create complete deep learning solutions with as few as 10 lines of code. Both predominant low-level deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow and PyTorch, require a lot of code, even for straightforward applications. In contrast, fastai handles the messy details for you and lets you focus on applying deep learning to actually solve problems. The book begins by summarizing the value of fastai and showing you how to create a simple 'hello world' deep learning application with fastai. You'll then learn how to use fastai for all four application areas that the framework explicitly supports: tabular data, text data (NLP), recommender systems, and vision data. As you advance, you'll work through a series of practical examples that illustrate how to create real-world applications of each type. Next, you'll learn how to deploy fastai models, including creating a simple web application that predicts what object is depicted in an image. The book wraps up with an overview of the advanced features of fastai. By the end of this fastai book, you'll be able to create your own deep learning applications using fastai. You'll also have learned how to use fastai to prepare raw datasets, explore datasets, train deep learning models, and deploy trained models.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Setting up JupyterLab environment in Gradient

Earlier in this chapter, we went through the steps to set up Gradient as an environment to explore fastai. With this set up, you get the standard Jupyter notebook environment that features a filesystem view and the ability to update notebooks, launch terminal windows, and perform basic operations such as uploading and downloading files from your local system. If you want a richer development environment, you can set up Gradient to use JupyterLab.

In addition to allowing you to maintain multiple views (for example, a terminal view along with several notebooks) within the same browser tab, JupyterLab also lets you take advantage of visual debuggers in the context of a notebook. In this section, we will go through the steps to set up Gradient so that you can use JupyterLab. Note that this recipe is optional—any example in this book that you can run in Gradient with JupyterLab will also work in vanilla Jupyter.

Getting ready

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