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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)

Deploying a fastai model trained on a tabular dataset

Back in the Saving a trained tabular model recipe in Chapter 3, Training Models with Tabular Data, you exercised a fastai model that you had saved. Recall the steps you went through in the recipe.

First, you loaded the saved model as follows:

learn = load_learner('/storage/data/adult_sample/adult_sample_model.pkl')

Then you took a test sample and generated a prediction from the model for the test sample:

test_sample = df_test.iloc[0]
learn.predict(test_sample)

The output of the prediction, as shown in the following screenshot, included the values of the input sample, the prediction, and probability of each outcome for the prediction:

Figure 7.2 – Output of running a prediction on the saved adult_sample_model model

In the web deployment of the model described in this recipe, you will be going through exactly the same steps (as outlined in the following list) as you went through...