Special Session w Thomas Viehmann : How to make the most out of community resources

Community Events PyTorch Book Reading Group
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Hello Thomas! This is Chaitanya from Paris. I have two questions

  1. Whats the best way to learn Pytorch if I am already familiar with Tensorflow?
  2. I would love to hear any helpful PyTorch Tips from you

Thanks in advance!!

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Hello, will the reading be available for download?

A question to Thomas: applying AI to city surveillance, if you have some experience on this, what are the most relevant topics or papers to study?

Perhaps some of the most common tasks are: face recognition, counting people in the camera field, counting the number of cars stopped at a traffic light etc

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Hi Thomas. What, would you say, is the best way to gain inspiration for deep-learning projects?

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Thomas,

I donā€™t think there is any debating the fact that deep learning on tabular datasets has not advanced as much as the other domains (images, nlp, audio, etc).

Do you think there is a limitation in the 2 main frameworks leveraged across the industry (pytorch, tensorflow) that would help deep learning approaches work more effectively on a wider range of tabular datasets?

Thanks, David Dirring

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Thereā€™s a link to download the book in the topic, but while Iā€™m here. link

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Hey Luke.

Try getting started with Kaggle, you can learn the best practices from other peoples and take part in competitions. I see thats the best place to get started if you are getting started with Pytorch and deeplearning.

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Why do you define yourself a retired pytorch developer?

Is contributing too time consuming for someone who needs to earn some money and make a living, or simply it isnā€™t so ā€œintellectuallyā€ rewarding?

Thanks

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For reference, Thomas mentioned additional resources:

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Hi Thomas, in your opinion how can the new trends in machine learning and deep learning fields (e.g self-supervised learning methods) affect the design and the implementation of the core modules of PyTorch?

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Is pyTorch recommended for production or we should build models on pytorch and export it to tensorflow usning ONXX? Also do we have something similar to tensorflow lite with pyTorch

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If I am also interested in contributing to the community and if would like to dig to deep into the source code, how much can I get away without knowing C++? Thank you!

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Can we have a simple comparison between Pytorch and TensorFlow? Since ima regular user of TensorFlow and now interested to get my hands on Pytorch, I think it would be helpful to know the major difference between them.

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As a follow-up question to the dev setup. Which is the most optimal setup to work on personal projects, applications, etc. involving deep learning?

Iā€™m exploring these options.

  1. Rent GPUs on vast.ai
  2. Google colab
  3. or putting together a deep learning PC

Your thoughts on these will be really helpful

Thanks for organizing the study group! :slight_smile:

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Pytorch became a preferred deeplearning framework in academic research sometime back. Why do you think Pytorch has become the preferred framework in the industry research and development efforts as well off late, for example, Tesla pioneering the usage with itā€™s FSD software?

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A group of us are keen on mastery in Deep learning using PyTorch. If you had to pick 2 must-haves to help us get there, what would they be, please?

Any tips/hints would be greatly appreciated.

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We see the book is mostly based on images (I love that btw), but do we deal with any NLP side of things as a part of reading sessions? @bhutanisanyam1

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Appreciation comment for Thomas and other Authors.

I am really happy with the book and also encouraging my colleagues at work to get a copy and learn pytorch from this book.

Thank you Thomas for making concepts simpler.

PS that was me on Twitter who mentioned about the humor :blush:

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Thoughts whether pytorch on TPUs will be able to match the performance of Jax on TPUs?

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I currently use Pytorch for all purposes, except when I have to run models on mobile devices, for which I use Tensorflow lite. Iā€™m interested in learning how to optimize PyTorch for mobile devices, hopefully, this is covered in the book.

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Is there any option for Prefetching data in pytorch, if it is how we are doing that in pytorch? @bhutanisanyam1 and @thomas

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