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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

Traffic volume forecasting using the LSTM time series model

Time series models also have various other business applications, such as predicting stock prices, forecasting the demand for products, or predicting the number of passengers per hour at an airport.

One of the most commonly used applications of such a model (which you must have used unknowingly while driving) is traffic predictions. In this section, we will try to predict the traffic volume for Interstate 94, which can be used by ride share companies such as Uber, Lyft, and/or Google Maps for predicting traffic and the time required to reach a destination for both the drivers and ride share customers. The traffic volume varies notoriously by hour (depending on the time of day, office hours, commute hours, and so on), and a time series model is helpful in making such predictions.

In this use case, we will use the Metro Interstate Traffic Volume dataset to build a multi-layer stacked LSTM model and forecast the traffic...