This blog post is a first of a series on how to leverage PyTorch’s ecosystem tools to easily jumpstart your ML / DL project. The first part of this blog describes common problems appearing when developing ML / DL solutions, and the second describes a simple image classification example demonstrating how to use Allegro Trains and PyTorch to address those problems.

If you write software for a living, you probably have a bias toward coded tests and against all things codeless. Most software engineers who become test engineers trust themselves to write well-designed structured code. Some people see record-and-playback as cheating, demeaning, or otherwise indicative of poor workmanship. Yet, research shows that test code maintenance costs correlate directly to the number of lines of written test code.

Every researcher or machine learning enthusiast faces that well-known experiment management nightmare; it’s usually a rude awakening discovered at the beginning of one’s career. Here’s how it goes.

The resurrection of AI due to the drastic increase in computing power has allowed its loyal enthusiasts, casual spectators, and experts alike to experiment with ideas that were pure fantasies a mere two decades ago. The biggest benefactor of this explosion in computing power and ungodly amounts of datasets (thank you, internet!) is none other than deep learning, the sub-field of machine learning(ML) tasked with extracting underlining features, patterns, and identifying cat images.

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