Book Image

Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By : Mark Ryan
Book Image

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 recommender system on a large curated dataset

In the Training a recommender system on a small curated dataset section, we saw the basics of how to create a recommender system model. The resulting system left something to be desired because the dataset only included user IDs and movie IDs, so it wasn't possible to determine what movies were actually being rated by users and having their ratings predicted by the model.

In this section, we are going to create a recommender system that addresses this gap in the previous recommender system because it is trained on a dataset that includes movie titles. Like the ML_SAMPLE dataset, the dataset we'll use in this section, ML_100k, is also derived from the MovieLens dataset, but it includes a much larger set of records and a much richer set of features. By creating a recommender system using this dataset, we will encounter additional features in fastai for ingesting and working with recommender system datasets and get...