Since his release from a Russian prison, Dmytro Khyliuk has barely been off the phone. The Ukrainian journalist was detained by Russian forces in the first days of their full-scale invasion. Three and a half years later he's been released in a prisoner swap, one of eight civilians freed in a surprise move. While Russia and Ukraine have swapped military prisoners of war before, it is very rare for Russia to release Ukrainian civilians. Dmytro has been catching up frantically on all he's missed.

This book takes you on a journey from the origins of machine learning to the latest deep learning architectures. Through conceptual and practical examples, you'll develop a repertoire of techniques that allow you to solve a wide range of predictive modeling tasks, including tabular, image, and text data. PyTorch is a very powerful and versatile tool, and deep learning naturally requires very flexible building blocks. Hence, PyTorch can sometimes be very verbose compared to traditional machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn. In this book, we explain how PyTorch works and cover all the essential parts.