fastai

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fastai

fastai is a layered API on top of PyTorch. It popularized Transfer Learning and good defaults (One Cycle Policy).

When to Use

  • Rapid Deep Learning Prototyping: Building vision, NLP, and tabular models with layered abstractions on top of PyTorch.
  • Transfer Learning with State-of-the-Art Defaults: Automated discriminative learning rates, 1cycle scheduling, and mixup data augmentation.
  • Computer Vision Tasks: Image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection with minimal boilerplate.
  • Learning Rate Optimization: Finding optimal learning rates automatically using lr_find().

Quick Start

from fastai.vision.all import *

# Train state-of-the-art vision classifier in 4 lines
path = untar_data(URLs.PETS)/'images'
def is_cat(x): return x[0].isupper()
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