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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)

Test your knowledge

Of the four application areas that fastai explicitly supports (tabular, text, recommender systems, and image/vision), fastai provides the most thorough support for creating models that work with image datasets. In this chapter, we have just scratched the surface of what you can do with fastai and image datasets. In this section, you will get a chance to dig a bit deeper into one of the fastai image dataset recipes from this chapter.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have followed the Training a multi-image classification model with a curated vision dataset recipe. In this section, you will be adapting the notebook you worked through in that recipe to try some new variations on deep learning with image datasets.

How to do it…

You can follow the steps in this section to try some variations on the image classification model that you trained with the PASCAL_2007 dataset in the Training a multi-image classification model with a curated vision dataset recipe...