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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
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Part 3 – Deployment and Maintenance

Data Preparation for Deep Learning Projects

The first step in every machine learning (ML) project consists of data collection and data preparation. As a subset of ML, deep learning (DL) involves the same data processing processes. We will start this chapter by setting up a standard DL Python notebook environment using Anaconda. Then, we will provide concrete examples for collecting data in various formats (JSON, CSV, HTML, and XML). In many cases, the collected data gets cleaned up and preprocessed as it consists of unnecessary information or invalid formats.

The chapter will introduce popular techniques in this domain: filling in missing values, dropping unnecessary entries, and normalizing the values. Next, you will learn common feature extraction techniques: the bag-of-words model, term frequency-inverse document frequency, one-hot encoding, and dimensionality reduction. Additionally, we will present matplotlib and seaborn, which are the most popular data visualization libraries...