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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

Implementing and training a model in PyTorch

PyTorch is a Python library for Torch, a ML package for Lua. The main features of PyTorch include graphics processing unit- (GPU-) accelerated matrix calculation and automatic differentiation for building and training neural networks. Creating the computation graph dynamically as the code gets executed, PyTorch is gaining popularity for its flexibility and ease of use, as well as its efficiency in model training.

Built on top of PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning (PL) provides another layer of abstraction, hiding many boilerplate codes. The new framework pays more attention to researchers by decoupling research-related components of PyTorch from the engineering-related components. PL codes are typically more scalable and easier to read than PyTorch codes. Even though the code snippets in this book put more emphasis on PL, PyTorch and PL share a lot of functionalities, so most components are interchangeable. If you are willing to dig into the...