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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)

Chapter 5: Training Recommender Systems

In this book, so far we have worked through recipes to train deep learning with fastai for a variety of datasets. In this chapter, we will go through recipes that take advantage of fastai's support for recommender systems, also known as collaborative filtering systems. Recommender systems combine the characteristics of tabular data models introduced in Chapter 3, Training Models with Tabular Data, with characteristics of text data models introduced in Chapter 4, Training Models with Text Data.

Recommender systems cover a narrow, but well-established, use case: given a set of users and their ratings of a set of items, a recommender system predicts the rating that a user will give for an item that the user has not rated yet. For example, given a set of books and a set of readers' assessments of these books, recommender systems can make predictions about a given reader's assessment of a book they haven't read yet.

In this...