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Level up
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Learn enough Lightning to match the level of expertise required by your research or job.
Basic skills
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Learn the basics of model development with Lightning. Researchers and machine learning engineers should start here.
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:header: Level 1: Train a model
:description: Learn the basics of training a model.
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:header: Level 2: Add a validation and test set
:description: Add validation and test sets to avoid over/underfitting.
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:header: Level 3: Use pretrained models
:description: Learn how to use pretrained models with Lightning
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:header: Level 4: Enable script parameters
:description: Add parameters to your script so you can run from the commandline.
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:header: Level 5: Understand and visualize your model
:description: Remove bottlenecks and visualize your model
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:description: Use your model for predictions.
:header: Level 6: Predict with your model
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Intermediate skills
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Learn to scale up your models and enable collaborative model development at academic or industry research labs.
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:header: Level 7: Interactive cloud development
:description: Learn how to access GPUs and TPUs on the cloud.
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:header: Level 8: Modularize your projects
:description: Create DataModules to enable dataset reusability.
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:header: Level 9: Understand your model
:description: Use advanced visuals to find the best performing model.
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:header: Level 10: Explore SOTA scaling techniques
:description: Explore SOTA techniques to help convergence, stability and scalability.
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:header: Level 11: Deploy your models
:description: Learn how to deploy your models with optimizations like ONNX and torchscript.
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:header: Level 12: Optimize training speed
:description: Use advanced profilers to mixed precision to train bigger models, faster.
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:header: Level 13: Run on on-prem clusters
:description: Run on a custom on-prem cluster or SLURM cluster.
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Advanced skills
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Configure all aspects of Lightning for advanced usecases.
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:header: Level 14: Customize configs to run in production
:description: Enable composable YAMLs
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:header: Level 15: Customize the trainer
:description: Inject custom code into the trainer and modify the progress bar.
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:header: Level 16: Own the training loop
:description: Learn all the ways of owning your raw PyTorch loops with Lighting.
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:header: Level 17: Enable advanced checkpointing
:description: Enable composable or cloud based checkpoints.
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:header: Level 18: Explore IPUs
:description: Explore Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for model scaling.
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:header: Level 19: Explore HPUs
:description: Explore Havana Gaudi Processing Unit (HPU) for model scaling.
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:header: Level 20: Master TPUs
:description: Master TPUs and run on cloud TPUs.
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:header: Level 21: Reach 1 trillion parameters on GPUs
:description: Scale to 1 trillion params on GPUs.
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Expert skills
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Customize and extend Lightning for things like custom hardware or distributed strategies.
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:header: Level 22: Extend the Lightning CLI
:description: Extend the functionality of the Lightning CLI.
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:header: Level 23: Integrate a custom cluster
:description: Integrate a custom cluster into Lightning.
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:header: Level 24: Make your own profiler
:description: Make your own profiler.
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:header: Level 25: Add a new accelerator or Strategy
:description: Integrate a new accelerator or distributed strategy.
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