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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By : Ryan
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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

4.5 (15)
By: Ryan

Overview of this book

fastai is an easy-to-use deep learning framework built on top of PyTorch that lets you rapidly create complete deep learning solutions with as few as 10 lines of code. Both predominant low-level deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow and PyTorch, require a lot of code, even for straightforward applications. In contrast, fastai handles the messy details for you and lets you focus on applying deep learning to actually solve problems. The book begins by summarizing the value of fastai and showing you how to create a simple 'hello world' deep learning application with fastai. You'll then learn how to use fastai for all four application areas that the framework explicitly supports: tabular data, text data (NLP), recommender systems, and vision data. As you advance, you'll work through a series of practical examples that illustrate how to create real-world applications of each type. Next, you'll learn how to deploy fastai models, including creating a simple web application that predicts what object is depicted in an image. The book wraps up with an overview of the advanced features of fastai. By the end of this fastai book, you'll be able to create your own deep learning applications using fastai. You'll also have learned how to use fastai to prepare raw datasets, explore datasets, train deep learning models, and deploy trained models.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Working with PyTorch tensors

Throughout most of this book, the focus will be on the features provided by the fastai framework. However, some of the solutions that we'll review also exploit general Python libraries (such as the pandas library for deep learning applications with tabular data) as well as aspects of PyTorch, the low-level deep learning framework upon which fastai is built. To give you a small taste of PyTorch, in this section we'll go through some basic examples of using tensors, the PyTorch structure for multidimensional matrices.

Getting ready

If you are already familiar with NumPy arrays, then you will have a good basis for examining PyTorch tensors because tensors play much the same role for PyTorch as NumPy arrays do for general-purpose Python applications. If you are not familiar with NumPy arrays or it's been a while since you have had a chance to use them, take a bit of time to review them—for example, by going through this tutorial...

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