Deep Learning with PyTorch

Comprehensive Notes on Deep Learning, Tensor Internals, Computer Vision, Transformers, and Production Deployment

These notes document a systematic, first-principles study of Deep Learning with PyTorch (2nd Edition, Manning) by Eli Stevens, Luca Antiga, Thomas Viehmann, and Howard Huang.

Manning Publications

Luca Antiga, Eli Stevens, Thomas Viehmann, Howard Huang


Book & Note Structure

PartFocus & ScopeCore Contents
Part 1: Core PyTorchFramework Mechanics & Low-Level FoundationsTensors, physical 1D storage buffers, strides, autograd DAG engine, modular nn.Module design, datasets/dataloaders, and 2D/3D convolutions.
Part 2: Practical ApplicationsAdvanced Vision, NLP & Systems EngineeringVision Transformers (ViT), Diffusion Models (DDPM), 3D Volumetric CT Scan Cancer Detection, SAM Fine-Tuning, Multi-GPU Parallelisms (FSDP/TP/PP), and Production Deployment (torch.compile, LibTorch C++, ExecuTorch).

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