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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)

Getting more details about models trained with tabular data

In the Training a model in fastai with a curated tabular dataset recipe of Chapter 3, Training Models with Tabular Data, you trained a fastai model on a tabular dataset and used accuracy as the metric. In this recipe, you will learn how to get additional metrics for this model: precision and recall. Precision is the ratio of true positives divided by true positives plus false positives. Recall is the ratio of true positives divided by true positives plus false negatives.

These are useful metrics. For example, the model we are training in this recipe is predicting whether an individual's income is over 50,000. If it is critical to avoid false positives – that is, predicting an income over 50,000 when the individual has an income less than that – then we want precision to be as high as possible. This recipe will show you how to add these useful metrics to the training process for a fastai model.

Getting...