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Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

By : Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili
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Book Image

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

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By: Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and deep learning with PyTorch. It acts as both a step-by-step tutorial and a reference you'll keep coming back to as you build your machine learning systems. Packed with clear explanations, visualizations, and examples, the book covers all the essential machine learning techniques in depth. While some books teach you only to follow instructions, with this machine learning book, we teach the principles allowing you to build models and applications for yourself. Why PyTorch? PyTorch is the Pythonic way to learn machine learning, making it easier to learn and simpler to code with. This book explains the essential parts of PyTorch and how to create models using popular libraries, such as PyTorch Lightning and PyTorch Geometric. You will also learn about generative adversarial networks (GANs) for generating new data and training intelligent agents with reinforcement learning. Finally, this new edition is expanded to cover the latest trends in deep learning, including graph neural networks and large-scale transformers used for natural language processing (NLP). This PyTorch book is your companion to machine learning with Python, whether you're a Python developer new to machine learning or want to deepen your knowledge of the latest developments.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

First steps with PyTorch

In this section, we will take our first steps in using the low-level PyTorch API. After installing PyTorch, we will cover how to create tensors in PyTorch and different ways of manipulating them, such as changing their shape, data type, and so on.

Installing PyTorch

To install PyTorch, we recommend consulting the latest instructions on the official https://pytorch.org website. Below, we will outline the basic steps that will work on most systems.

Depending on how your system is set up, you can typically just use Python’s pip installer and install PyTorch from PyPI by executing the following from your terminal:

pip install torch torchvision

This will install the latest stable version, which is 1.9.0 at the time of writing. To install the 1.9.0 version, which is guaranteed to be compatible with the following code examples, you can modify the preceding command as follows:

pip install torch==1.9.0 torchvision==0.10.0

If you...