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Python Deep Learning: PyTorch vs Tensorflow (Summary)

Negar Vahid
Python Deep Learning: PyTorch vs Tensorflow Negar Vahid 02:05
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In this video course, you’ve had an introduction to PyTorch and TensorFlow, seen who uses them and what APIs they support, and learned how to choose PyTorch vs TensorFlow for your project. You’ve seen the different programming languages, tools, datasets, and models that each one supports, and learned how to pick which one is best for your unique style and project.

In this video course, you learned:

  • What the differences are between PyTorch and TensorFlow
  • How to use tensors to do computation in each
  • Which platform is best for different kinds of projects
  • What tools and data are supported by each

Now that you’ve decided which library to use, you’re ready to start building neural networks with them. Check out the links in Further Reading for ideas.

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00:00 Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end. Let’s see what you accomplished.

00:05 In this course, you grasped the fundamentals of tensors. You understood they are special containers for multidimensional arrays, and both PyTorch and TensorFlow use them.

00:18 You explored the general features of TensorFlow and PyTorch. For example, now you know who built them and when they were released and what they’re good at.

00:28 You became familiar with their coding conventions. You saw a code snippet that took two arrays and turned them into tensors, and then multiplied them both in TensorFlow and PyTorch.

00:40 You delved into Torch and Keras. You now know Torch is the fast and powerful backend of PyTorch, and Keras is a framework that TensorFlow uses. It has some ready-to-use tools, so you don’t have to define every single function from scratch.

00:56 Finally, you acquainted yourself with their ecosystems. For instance, you know TensorFlow Hub that offers some pre-trained models and Torch Serve, which is a tool that’s designed for serving PyTorch models in production environments.

01:12 Now, you might be wondering what’s next. Here are three courses and tutorials that you can explore now. The first one is a basic Python setup for machine learning on Windows, which is a great tutorial on how to install PyTorch and TensorFlow on your local device.

01:29 You can also check out Practical Text Classification with Python and Keras. This one is both a tutorial and a video course. It’s a great course to start NLP or Natural Language Processing.

01:43 And finally, you can check out Real Python’s machine learning series. It has an awesome collection of tutorials and video courses that help you build amazing machine learning models.

01:56 Okay, I hope you had fun learning about PyTorch and TensorFlow. This has been Nagar with Real Python, and I hope to see you again. Stay awesome.

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Will Dennis on April 6, 2024

Great overview course! I work supporting researchers who are all using deep learning with GPU acceleration, and now I know why they are now mainly using PyTorch instead of TF, which I know was popular at our lab some years ago. Fun fact, two of our former researchers (Ronan Collobert, Koray Kavukcuoglu) are the inventors and maintainers of Torch.

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ole088 on Nov. 16, 2024

This course is very helpful. I have a better understanding of ML with Python. I’ll definitely be viewing more courses and tutorials on this subject.

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