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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

Understanding the behavior of the model with Explainable AI

Explainable AI is a very active area of research. In business settings, understanding AI models can easily lead to a distinctive competitive advantage. The so-called black-box models (complex algorithmic models), even though they bring exceptional results, are commonly criticized due to their hidden logic. It is hard for higher-level management to fully design the core business based on AI, as interpreting the model and predictions is not an easy task. How can you convince your business partners that an AI model will always deliver the expected results? How can you ensure that the model will still work on new data? How does the model generate the results? Explainable AI helps us address these questions.

Before we go any further, let’s look at two important concepts: interpretability and explainability. At first, they might sound similar. Interpretability tells us why a specific input produces the specific model&...