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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

Data collection, data cleaning, and data preprocessing

In this section, we will introduce you to various tasks involved in the process of data collection. We will describe how to collect data from multiple sources and convert them into a generic form that data scientists can use regardless of the underlying task. This process can be broken down into a few parts: data collection, data cleaning, and data preprocessing. It is worth mentioning that task-specific transformation is considered feature extraction, which will be discussed in the following section.

Collecting data

First, we will introduce different data collection methods for composing initial datasets. Different techniques are necessary, depending on how the raw data is formatted. Most datasets are either available online as an HFML file or as a JSON object. Some data is stored in Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format, which can easily be loaded through the pandas library, a popular data analysis and manipulation tool....