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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

Dataset versioning – beyond Weights & Biases, MLflow, and DVC

Throughout this chapter, we have seen how datasets can be managed by DL project-tracking tools. In the case of W&B, we can use artifacts, while in the case of MLflow and DVC, DVC runs on top of a Git repository to track different versions of datasets, thereby solving the limitations of Git.

Are there any other methods and/or tools that are useful for dataset versioning? The simple answer is yes, but again, the more precise answer depends on the context. To make the right choice, you must consider various aspects including cost, ease of use, and integration difficulty. In this section, we will mention a few tools that we believe are worth exploring if dataset versioning is one of the critical components of your project:

  • Neptune (https://docs.neptune.ai) is a metadata store for MLOps. Neptune artifacts allow versioning to be conducted on datasets that are stored locally or in cloud.
  • Delta Lake...