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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

Summary

This chapter is an introduction to our journey. In the first two sections, we have described where DL sits within the wider picture of AI and how it continually shapes our daily lives. The key takeaways are the fact that DL is highly flexible due to its unique model architecture and the fact that DL has been actively adopted to the domain which traditional ML techniques have failed to demonstrate notable accomplishments.

Then, we have provided a high-level view of the DL project. In general, DL projects can be split into the following phases: project planning, building MVPs, building FFPs, development and maintenance, and project evaluation.

The main contents of this chapter covered the most important step of the DL project: project planning. In this phase, the purpose of the project needs to be clearly defined, along with the evaluation metrics, everyone must have a solid understanding of the stakeholders and their respective roles, and lastly, the tasks, milestones, and timeline need to be agreed upon by the participants. The outcome of this phase would be a well-formatted document called a playbook. In the next chapter, we will learn how to prepare data for DL projects.