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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

Summary

We got a taste of basic MLPs and CNNs in this chapter, which are the building blocks of DL. We learned that by using the PyTorch Lightning framework, we can easily build our models. While MLPs and CNNs may sound like basic models, they are quite advanced in terms of business applications, and many companies are just warming up to their industrial use. Neural Networks are used very widely as classifiers on structured data for predicting users' likes or propensity to respond to an offer or for marketing campaign optimization, among many other things. CNNs are also widely used in many industrial applications, such as counting the number of objects in an image, recognizing car dents for insurance claims, facial recognition to identify criminals, and so on.

In this chapter, we saw how to build the simplest yet most important XOR operator using an MLP model. We further extended the concept of MLPs to build our first CNN DL model to recognize images. Using PyTorch Lightning...