Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: Part I - Fundamentals

Delve into PyTorch basics: autograd, model classes, datasets, and data loaders. Gain insights into model development while avoiding common pitfalls. Start creating and training your own PyTorch models.

Beginner

92 Lessons

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184 Playgrounds

20 Quizzes

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20 Quizzes

Course Overview

This course is designed to provide you with an easy-to-follow, structured, incremental, and from-first-principles approach to learning PyTorch. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of PyTorch: autograd, model classes, datasets, data loaders, and more. You will develop, step-by-step, not only the models themselves but also your understanding of them. You'll be shown both the reasoning behind the code and how to avoid some common pitfalls and errors along the way. By the time you finish th...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Python

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Neural Networks

Pytorch

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with PyTorch's pythonic nature and foundational concepts designed for beginners.

Why PyTorch?

Course Overview

Visualizing Gradient Descent

Unpack the core of visualizing gradient descent, exploring parameter updates, learning rates, and feature scaling using a linear regression model in Numpy.

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Gradient Descent

Data Generation

Basic Steps for Using Gradient Descent (Step 0 and 1)

Step 2a - Compute the Loss

Step 2b - Computing the Loss Surface

Step 3 - Compute the Gradients

Step 4 - Update the Parameters

Learning Rate

Scaling the Dataset

Step 5 - Rinse and Repeat!

Recap

Quiz

Challenge 1 - Visualizing Gradient Descent

Solution Review - Visualizing Gradient Descent

A Simple Regression Problem

Master the steps to implement linear regression with PyTorch, covering tensors, autograd, optimizers, and model creation.

Rethinking the Training Loop

Grasp the fundamentals of creating an effective training loop in PyTorch.

Spoilers

Introducing Higher-Order Functions

Rethinking the Training Loop

Building a Dataset

DataLoader

Quiz

Mini-Batch Inner Loop and Training Split

Evaluation

TensorBoard

SummaryWriter

Saving and Loading Models

Deploying / Making Predictions

Putting It All Together

Recap

Quiz

Challenge 3 - Rethinking the Training Loop

Solution Review - Rethinking the Training Loop

Going Classy

Deepen your knowledge of creating and integrating a PyTorch class, enhancing code management.

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Going Classy

Functions

Different Method Types

Training Methods

Saving and Loading Methods

Finalising the Methods needed for going Classy

Classy Pipeline

Model Training and Predictions

Checkpointing

Putting It All Together

Recap

Quiz

Challenge 4 - Going Classy

Solution Review - Going Classy

A Simple Classification Problem

19 Lessons

See how it works to build and evaluate a binary classification model using PyTorch.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Build on your deep learning skills by exploring further and staying engaged.

Appendix

2 Lessons

Get familiar with setting up Jupyter notebooks and running TensorBoard for deep learning tasks.

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