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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)
1
Section 1: Kickstarting with PyTorch Lightning
6
Section 2: Solving using PyTorch Lightning
11
Section 3: Advanced Topics

To get the most out of this book

Getting started with PyTorch Lightning is very easy. You can use the Anaconda distribution to set up your environment locally or use a cloud option such as Google Colab, AWS, Azure, or IBM Watson Studio to get started. (It is recommended that you use a cloud environment with GPU to run some of the more complex models.)

Deep Learning Models in this book are trained using color images. Please also use digital version which has all the color images; to better understand the results.

PyTorch Lightning can be installed using pip in your Jupyter Notebook environment:

pip install pytorch-lightning

In addition to importing PyTorch Lightning (the first import statement can be seen as follows), the following import block shows statements that are usually part of the code:

import pytorch_lightning as pl
import torch
from torch import nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torchvision import transforms

The import packages and their versions change for each chapter, so please ensure that you are importing correct packages as mentioned on the Technical Requirements sections of the book.

The torch package is used for defining tensors and performing mathematical operations on the tensors. The torch.nn package is used for constructing neural networks, which is what nn stands for. torch.nn.functional contains functions including activation and loss functions, whereas torchvision.transforms is a separate library that provides common image transformations.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Please substitute correct installation & package versions as mentioned in the Technical Requirements sections before running GitHub files. Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.