Book Review

Book Review: Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

Learn how to train and optimize PyTorch models

I was offered to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-model-training-PyTorch-2-0-ebook/dp/B0C2CPHLL6/

I think this is a great book that will be useful to anyone who wants to improve their understanding of training and optimizing PyTorch models.

The author starts with an overview of the training process and rapidly goes deeper, explaining technical details and intricacies of tinkering with everything, starting with the model itself and finishing with modifying the environment level.

After that, the focus is moved to the training itself — we learn more about compiling models, pruning the model, processing data faster, and other approaches.

Finally, the author shared approaches to distributed training — on a single machine or on a cluster.

I liked the book’s style — the interwoven switching between explanations in simpler terms and technical details, code examples, notes and links to external resources, and quizzes that checked my understanding of the text. Multiple times, after reading some sections, I thought, “Hey, but what about %approach name%?” and then I read about that exact approach in the next section! And I appreciate that the whole code is shared on GitHub.

This book was captivating, and I recommend it. It will be useful even for experienced PyTorch practitioners.