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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)

Training a model in fastai with a curated tabular dataset

In Chapter 2, Exploring and Cleaning Up Data with fastai, you learned how to ingest and examine the ADULT_SAMPLE curated tabular dataset. In this recipe, we will go through the process of training a deep learning model on this dataset using fastai. This will give you an overview of the happy path to creating a tabular deep learning model with fastai. The goal of this recipe is to use this dataset to train a deep learning model with fastai, which predicts whether the person described in a particular record will have a salary above or below 50k.

Getting ready

Confirm that you can open the training_with_tabular_datasets.ipynb notebook in the ch3 directory of your repository.

I am grateful for the opportunity to include the ADULT_SAMPLE dataset featured in this section.

Dataset citation

Ron Kohavi. (1996) Scaling Up the Accuracy of Naive-Bayes Classifers: a Decision-Tree Hybrid (http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk...