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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)
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Part 1 – Building a Minimum Viable Product
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Part 2 – Building a Fully Featured Product
10
Part 3 – Deployment and Maintenance

Network Architecture Search – finding the most efficient network architecture

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is the process of finding the best organization of the layers for the given problem. As the search space of the possible network architectures is extremely large, it is not feasible to evaluate every possible network architecture. Therefore, there is a need for a clever way to identify a promising network architecture and evaluate the candidates. Therefore, NAS methods are developed along three different aspects:

  • Search space: How to construct a search space of a reasonable size
  • Search strategy: How to explore the search space efficiently
  • Performance estimation strategy: How to estimate the performance efficiently without training the model completely

Even though NAS is a fast-growing field of research, a few tools are available for TF and PyTorch models: