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Deep Learning with PyTorch Lightning

By : Kunal Sawarkar
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Book Image

Deep Learning with PyTorch Lightning

3.5 (2)
By: Kunal Sawarkar

Overview of this book

Building and implementing deep learning (DL) is becoming a key skill for those who want to be at the forefront of progress.But with so much information and complex study materials out there, getting started with DL can feel quite overwhelming. Written by an AI thought leader, Deep Learning with PyTorch Lightning helps researchers build their first DL models quickly and easily without getting stuck on the complexities. With its help, you’ll be able to maximize productivity for DL projects while ensuring full flexibility – from model formulation to implementation. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to configure PyTorch Lightning on a cloud platform, understand the architectural components, and explore how they are configured to build various industry solutions. You’ll build a neural network architecture, deploy an application from scratch, and see how you can expand it based on your specific needs, beyond what the framework can provide. In the later chapters, you’ll also learn how to implement capabilities to build and train various models like Convolutional Neural Nets (CNN), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Time Series, Self-Supervised Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) using PyTorch Lightning. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy DL models with confidence.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Kickstarting with PyTorch Lightning
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Section 2: Solving using PyTorch Lightning
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Section 3: Advanced Topics

Deploying and scoring a Deep Learning model natively

Once a Deep Learning model is trained, it basically contains all the information about its structure, that is, its model weights, layers, and so on. For us to be able to use this model later in the production environment on new sets of data, we need to store this model in a suitable format. The process of converting a data object into a format that can be stored in memory is called serialization. Once a model is serialized in such a fashion, it's an autonomous entity and can be transmitted or transferred to a different operating system or a different deployment environment (such as staging or production).

However, once a model is transferred to a production environment, we must reconstruct the model parameters and weights in their original format. This process of recreation from the serialized format is called de-serialization.

There are some other ways to productionalize ML models as well, but the most commonly used method...