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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 TF

While PyTorch is oriented towards research projects, TF puts more emphasis on industry use cases. While the deployment features of PyTorch, Torch Serve, and Torch Mobile are still in the experimental phase, the deployment features of TF, TF Serve, and TF Lite are stable and actively in use. The first version of TF was introduced by the Google Brain team in 2011 and they have been continuously updating TF to make it more flexible, user-friendly, and efficient. The key difference between TF and PyTorch was initially much larger, as the first version of TF used static graphs. However, this situation has changed with version 2, as it introduces eager execution, mimicking dynamic graphs known from PyTorch. TF version 2 is often used with Keras, an interface for ANN (https://keras.io). Keras allows users to quickly develop DL models and run experiments. In the following sections, we will walk you through the key components of TF.

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