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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 7: Deployment and Model Maintenance

So far in this book, you have trained a wide variety of fastai models, including models trained with tabular datasets, models trained with text datasets, recommender systems, and models trained with image data. All the models that you have trained have been exercised in the context of Jupyter notebooks. Jupyter notebooks are great for training models and exercising them with a couple of test examples, but what about actually making your model useful? How do you make your model available to other people or applications to actually solve problems?

The process of making your deep learning models available to other people or applications is called deployment. In this chapter, we will go through recipes that show how to deploy your fastai models. The industrial-strength production deployment of deep learning models is beyond the scope of this book. Instead, in this chapter, you will learn how to create simple, self-contained deployments that...