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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)

Training a model with augmented data

In the previous recipe, you learned about some additional facilities that fastai provides to keep track of your model and you learned how to apply the test set to the model trained on the training set. In this recipe, you will learn how to combine these techniques with another technique that fastai makes it easy to incorporate in your model training: data augmentation. With data augmentation, you can expand your training dataset to include variations on the original training samples and, potentially, improve the performance of the trained model.

Figure 8.14 shows some results of augmentation applied to an image from the CIFAR dataset:

Figure 8.14 – Augmentation applied to an image

You can see in these examples that the augmentations applied to the image include flipping the image on the vertical axis, rotating the image, and adjusting the brightness of the image.

As in the previous recipe, in this recipe,...