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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 6: Training Models with Visual Data

Deep learning has been successfully applied to many different types of data, including tabular data, text data, and recommender system data. You saw fastai's approach to these types of data in Chapter 3, Training Models with Tabular Data, Chapter 4, Training Models with Text Data, and Chapter 5, Training Recommender Systems. These types of data are all part of the story of deep learning, but visual data or image data is the type of data that is traditionally associated most closely with deep learning.

Visual data is also the type of data that is most thoroughly supported by the fastai framework. The fastai high-level API is mostly developed for visual data, and 70% of the curated fastai datasets are visual datasets. In this chapter, we will explore some of the features that fastai provides for exploring visual datasets and building high-performance deep learning models with image datasets.

In this chapter, you will learn how to...