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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)

Saving a trained tabular model

So far, we have trained a series of fastai deep learning models on tabular datasets. These models are available to us in the Python session where we train the model, but what can we do to save the models so that we can use them later in a different session? In this recipe, we will learn how to save a fastai deep learning model to a file and access that model in another Python session.

Getting ready

Ensure you have followed the steps in Chapter 1, Getting Started with fastai, to get a fastai environment set up. Confirm that you can open the saving_models_trained_with_tabular_datasets.ipynb and loading_saved_models_trained_with_tabular_datasets.ipynb notebooks in the ch3 directory of your repository.

How to do it…

In this recipe, you will be running through the saving_models_trained_with_tabular_datasets.ipynb notebook to train a model – the same model that you trained in the first recipe of this chapter – and save it. Then...