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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
11
Section 3: Advanced Topics

Managing training

In this section, we will go through some of the common challenges that you may encounter while managing the training of DL models. This includes troubleshooting in terms of saving model parameters and debugging the model logic efficiently.

Saving model hyperparameters

There is often a need to save the model's hyperparameters. A few reasons are reproducibility, consistency, and that some models' network architecture are extremely sensitive to hyperparameters.

On more than one occasion, you may find yourself being unable to load the model from the checkpoint. The load_from_checkpoint method of the LightningModule class fails with an error.

Solution

A checkpoint is nothing more than a saved state of the model. Checkpoints contain precise values of all parameters used by the model. However, hyperparameter arguments passed to the __init__ model are not saved in the checkpoint by default. Calling self.save_hyperparameters inside __init__ of the...