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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

Components of DL frameworks

Since the configuration of model training follows the same process regardless of the underlying tasks, many engineers and researchers have put together the common building blocks into frameworks. Most of the frameworks simplify DL model development by keeping data loading logic and model definitions independent from the training logic.

The data loading logic

Data loading logic includes everything from loading the raw data in memory to preparing each sample for training and evaluation. In many cases, data for the train set, validation set, and test set are stored in separate locations, so that each of them requires a distinct loading and preparation logic. The standard frameworks keep these logics separate from the other building blocks so that the model can be trained using different datasets in a dynamic way with minimal changes on the model side. Furthermore, the frameworks have standardized the way that these logics are defined to improve reusability...