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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

Now that you have deployed two kinds of fastai models and worked through some of the challenges related to maintaining deployed models, you can try some additional variations on deployment to exercise what you've learned.

Getting ready

Ensure that you have followed the steps in the Setting up fastai on your local system recipe to get fastai installed on your local system. Also, ensure that you have the Flask server started for the image classification model deployment by following Steps 1, 2, and 3 in the Deploying a fastai model trained on an image dataset recipe.

To experiment on the image classification model deployment, make a copy of the deploy_image directory. To do this, make the directory that contains deploy_image your current directory and run the following command to make a copy of the directory and its contents called deploy_image_test:

cp -r deploy_image deploy_image_test

How to do it…

You can follow the steps in this...