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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)

Setting up fastai on your local system

The first step in being able to do a simple web deployment of a fastai deep learning model is to set up your local system with PyTorch and fastai. You need to do this because you will be running code on your local system that invokes models that you trained earlier in this book. To exercise models to make predictions on your local system, you need to have the fastai framework installed. In this recipe, you will see how to set up fastai on your local system and how to validate your installation.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have Python (at least 3.7) installed on your local system.

To check the level of Python, enter the following command on the command line:

python –version

The output will show the version of Python installed on your local system as follows:

Figure 7.1 – Python version

Ensure that you have cloned the book's repo at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Deep-Learning-with...