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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 image classification models

In the Training a classification model with a simple curated vision dataset recipe of Chapter 6, Training Models with Visual Data, you trained an image classification model using the CIFAR curated dataset. The code to train and exercise the model was straightforward because we took advantage of the highest-level structures in fastai. In this recipe, we will revisit this image classification model and explore techniques in fastai to get additional information about the model and its performance, including the following:

  • Examining the pipeline that fastai generates to prepare the data
  • Getting a chart of the training and validation loss during the training process
  • Displaying the images where the model performs worst
  • Displaying the confusion matrix to get a snapshot of where the model is not doing well
  • Applying the model to the test set and examining the model's performance on the test set

In this...