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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 an image dataset

In the Deploying a fastai model trained on a tabular dataset recipe, we went through the process of deploying a model trained on a tabular dataset. We deployed a model that predicted whether an individual would have an income over 50,000 based on a set of characteristics called scoring parameters, including education, job category, and hours worked per week. To do this deployment, we needed a way to allow the user to select values for the scoring parameters and then show the prediction made by the trained fastai model on these scoring parameters.

In this recipe, we will deploy the image classification model that you trained in the Training a classification model with a standalone vision dataset recipe of Chapter 6, Training Models with Visual Data. This model predicts what fruit or vegetable is depicted in an image. Unlike the deployment of the tabular dataset model, to deploy the image dataset model we will need to be able...