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Production-Ready Applied Deep Learning

By : Tomasz Palczewski, Jaejun (Brandon) Lee, Lenin Mookiah
Book Image

Production-Ready Applied Deep Learning

By: Tomasz Palczewski, Jaejun (Brandon) Lee, Lenin Mookiah

Overview of this book

Machine learning engineers, deep learning specialists, and data engineers encounter various problems when moving deep learning models to a production environment. The main objective of this book is to close the gap between theory and applications by providing a thorough explanation of how to transform various models for deployment and efficiently distribute them with a full understanding of the alternatives. First, you will learn how to construct complex deep learning models in PyTorch and TensorFlow. Next, you will acquire the knowledge you need to transform your models from one framework to the other and learn how to tailor them for specific requirements that deployment environments introduce. The book also provides concrete implementations and associated methodologies that will help you apply the knowledge you gain right away. You will get hands-on experience with commonly used deep learning frameworks and popular cloud services designed for data analytics at scale. Additionally, you will get to grips with the authors’ collective knowledge of deploying hundreds of AI-based services at a large scale. By the end of this book, you will have understood how to convert a model developed for proof of concept into a production-ready application optimized for a particular production setting.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Building a Minimum Viable Product
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Part 2 – Building a Fully Featured Product
10
Part 3 – Deployment and Maintenance

Simplifying Deep Learning Model Deployment

The deep learning (DL) models that are deployed in production environments are often different from the models that are fresh out of the training process. They are usually augmented to handle incoming requests with the highest performance. However, the target environments are often too broad, so a lot of customization is necessary to cover vastly different deployment settings. To overcome this difficulty, you can make use of open neural network exchange (ONNX), a standard file format for ML models. In this chapter, we will introduce how you can utilize ONNX to convert DL models between DL frameworks and how it separates the model development process from deployment.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introduction to ONNX
  • Conversion between TensorFlow and ONNX
  • Conversion between PyTorch and ONNX