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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)

Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers, and deep learning enthusiasts who are looking to learn and explore the fastai framework using a recipe-based approach. Working knowledge of the Python programming language and machine learning basics are strongly recommended to get the most out of this book.

This book provides practical examples of how to use fastai to tackle a variety of deep learning application areas, but it is not an exhaustive reference for the platform. To get comprehensive details on fastai, please see the Conclusion and additional resources on fastai section in Chapter 8, Extended fastai and Deployment Features. This section points to additional fastai content, including the excellent deep learning courses built around fastai created by Jeremy Howard and his team.