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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

Training a model on a single machine

As described in Chapter 3, Developing a Powerful Deep Learning Model, training a DL model involves extracting meaningful patterns from a dataset. When the size of the dataset is small and the model has few parameters to tune, a central processing unit (CPU) might be sufficient to train the model. However, DL models have shown greater performance when they are trained with a larger training set and consist of a greater number of neurons. Therefore, training using a graphics processing unit (GPU) has become the standard since you can exploit its massive parallelism in matrix multiplication.

Utilizing multiple devices for training in TensorFlow

TF provides the tf.distribute.Strategy module, which allows you to use multiple GPU or CPU devices for training with very simple code modifications (https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/distributed_training). tf.distribute.Strategy is fully compatible with tf.keras.Model.fit, as well as custom training loops...