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The Deep Learning Architect's Handbook

By : Ee Kin Chin
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Book Image

The Deep Learning Architect's Handbook

5 (1)
By: Ee Kin Chin

Overview of this book

Deep learning enables previously unattainable feats in automation, but extracting real-world business value from it is a daunting task. This book will teach you how to build complex deep learning models and gain intuition for structuring your data to accomplish your deep learning objectives. This deep learning book explores every aspect of the deep learning life cycle, from planning and data preparation to model deployment and governance, using real-world scenarios that will take you through creating, deploying, and managing advanced solutions. You’ll also learn how to work with image, audio, text, and video data using deep learning architectures, as well as optimize and evaluate your deep learning models objectively to address issues such as bias, fairness, adversarial attacks, and model transparency. As you progress, you’ll harness the power of AI platforms to streamline the deep learning life cycle and leverage Python libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, ONNX, Catalyst, MLFlow, Captum, Nvidia Triton, Prometheus, and Grafana to execute efficient deep learning architectures, optimize model performance, and streamline the deployment processes. You’ll also discover the transformative potential of large language models (LLMs) for a wide array of applications. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered deep learning techniques to unlock its full potential for your endeavors.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Foundational Methods
11
Part 2 – Multimodal Model Insights
17
Part 3 – DLOps

Understanding Neural Network Transformers

Not to be confused with the electrical devices that are also called transformers, neural network transformers are the jack-of-all-trades variant of NNs. Transformers are capable of processing and capturing patterns from data of any modality, including sequential data such as text data and time-series data, image data, audio data, and video data.

The transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the motive of replacing RNN-based sequence-to-sequence architectures and primarily focusing on the machine translation use case of converting text data from one language to another language. The results performed better than the baseline RNN-based model and proved that we don’t need inherent inductive biases on the sequential nature of the data that the RNNs employ. Transformers then became the root of a family of neural network architectures and branched off to model variants that are capable of capturing patterns in other data modalities...