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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

DL project tracking with MLflow and DVC

MLflow is a popular framework that supports tracking technical dependencies, model parameters, metrics, and artifacts. The key components of MLflow are as follows:

  • Tracking: It keeps a track of result changes every time the model runs
  • Projects: It packages model code in a reproducible way
  • Models: It organizes model artifacts for future convenient deployments
  • Model Registry: It manages a full life cycle of an MLflow model
  • Plugins: It can be easily integrated with other DL frameworks as it provides flexible plugins

As you may have already noticed, there are some similarities between W&B and MLflow. However, in the case of MLflow, every experiment is linked with a set of Git commits. Git does not prevent us from saving datasets, but it shows many limitations when the datasets are large, even with an extension built for large files (Git LFS). Thus, MLflow is commonly combined with DVC, an open source version control...