Introduction to pytorch

Tuesday 8 Mar 2022, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

This free-of-charge course will go through a step-by-step introduction to the use of pytorch for machine learning. Specifically, we will discuss the use of the pytorch library for the training of a image classification task. We hope that this way, learners can apprehend pytorch and extrapolate to other use cases.

Prerequisites

The course itself is planned in a code-along style and fully virtual. Please prepare to have:

• a screen to see what the trainer types
• a second screen to type along
• a working microphone
• a working speaker or headphone
• a working python environment running pytorch 1.8 or later

Moreover, we expect that participants have experience running machine learning training on a provided dataset e.g. for using a multi-layer perceptron or a convolutional neural network. This is not an introductory course to machine learning. We will focus mostly on the use of the pytorch library.

1 Welcome

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

2 Introduction to pytorch

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

12:00 Lunch

3 Pytorch introduction continued

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

15:00 Break

4 (TBC) Introduction to pytorch-lightning