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PyTorch Essentials: An Applications-First Approach (LFD273)

Start prototyping AI applications powered by PyTorch by leveraging popular pretrained models in the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing covering an extensive span of practical applications.

Who Is It For
This course is designed for machine learning practitioners who want to add deep learning models in PyTorch – especially pretraining models for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing – to quickly prototype and deploy applications.
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What You’ll Learn
The course begins with an overview of PyTorch, including model classes, datasets, data loaders and the training loop. Next, it covers the role and power of transfer learning, along with how to use it with pretrained models. Practical lab exercises cover multiple topics including: image classification, object detection, sentiment analysis, text classification, and text generation/completion. Learners also will use their data to fine-tune existing models and leverage third-party APIs.
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What It Prepares You For
This course provides hands-on experience to train and fine-tune deep learning models using the rich PyTorch and Hugging Face ecosystems of pre-trained models for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing tasks. Additionally, you will be able to deploy prototype applications using TorchServe, allowing you to quickly validate and demo your application.
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Course Outline
Chapter 1. Course Introduction
Chapter 2. PyTorch, Datasets, and Models
Chapter 3. Building Your First Dataset
Chapter 4. Training Your First Model
Chapter 5. Building Your First Hugging Face Dataset
Chapter 6. Transfer Learning and Pretrained Models
Chapter 7. Pretrained Models for Computer Vision
Chapter 8. Pretrained Models for Natural Language Processing
Chapter 9. Image Classification with Torchvision
Chapter 10. Fine-Tuning Pretrained Models for Computer Vision
Chapter 11. Serving Models with TorchServe
Chapter 12. Datasets and Transformations for Object Detection and Image Segmentation
Chapter 13. Models for Object Detection and Image Segmentation
Chapter 14. Object Detection Evaluation
Chapter 15. Word Embeddings and Text Classification
Chapter 16. Contextual Word Embeddings with Transformers
Chapter 17. Hugging Face Pipelines for NLP Tasks
Chapter 18. Q&A, Summarization, and LLMs
Prerequisites
To get the most possible value from this course, you should be familiar with the following:

  • Python (notions of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP))
  • PyData Stack (Numpy – arrays, slicing, vectorized operations – , Pandas – series, slicing, indexing, transformations – , Matplotlib – basic plotting only – , Scikit-Learn – linear regression, pipelines, one-hot encoding, normalization/scaling, grid search, hyper-parameter optimization)  
  • Machine Learning Concepts (supervised learning: regression and classification; loss functions: RMSE, cross-entropy; train-validation-test split; evaluation metrics (R-squared, precision, recall, accuracy, confusion matrix)
Lab Info
To do the lab exercises in this course, you’ll need the following:

  • Google account (for Google Colab, free tier)
Reviews
Jul 2024
I like the different types of approach to training models highlighted, like just taking the pipelines, or taking the model and changing its head, or just making a model from scratch.
May 2024
Every chapter was really instructive. Thanks!
Dec 2023
The content was solid, while providing references to dive much deeper.
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Online, Self Paced
40 Hours of Course Material
Hands-on Labs & Assignments
12 Months of Access to Online Course
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