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Deep Learning with PyTorch Lightning

By : Kunal Sawarkar
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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

Getting started with transfer learning

Transfer learning has many interesting applications, with one of the most fascinating being converting an image into the style of a famous painter, such as Van Gogh or Picasso.

Figure 3.1 – Image credit: A neural algorithm of artistic style (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576v2.pdf)

The preceding example is also known as Style Transfer. There are many specialized algorithms for accomplishing this task, and VGG-16, ResNet, and AlexNet are some of the more popular architectures.

In this chapter, we will start with the creation of a simple image classification model using ResNet-50 architecture on the PCam dataset, which contains image scans of cancer tissues. Later, we will build a text classification model that uses Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT).

In both examples in this chapter, we will make use of a pre-trained model and its weights and fine-tune the model to make it work...