genaibook

This package contains some utilities to support O’Reilly book Hands-On Generative AI with Transformers and Diffusion Models (O’Reilly, amazon.com).

Setup

Code is an essential part of the book content, and we highly recommend to run the code examples while reading it. We also recommend to explore on your own by modifying the code snippets or creating your own!

This package will help you setup your environment and provides some basic utilities used throughout the book.

Hardware and Software Requirements

genaibook only requires Python 3.10 or better. Dealing with transformers and diffusion models is a compute-intensive task, so having access to a computer with a NVIDIA GPU will be needed. There are multiple online options that you can use such as Google Colaboratory and Kaggle Notebooks.

You can also run in a local environment if your computer has a NVIDIA GPU. Support for mps on Apple Silicon Macs is expected to work for the most part, but has not been tested in depth.

Local Environment

If you want to install in your computer, please install a Python 3.10 virtual environment using your preferred method. As an example, you can do it with conda like this:

conda create -n genaibook python=3.10
conda activate genaibook

Package Install

If you are using your own local environment, just run the following in a terminal window:

pip install genaibook

If you are using a notebook-based environment such as Google Colaboratory or Kaggle Notebooks, enter the following in the first cell of a new notebook:

!pip install genaibook

This will in turn install transformers, diffusers, PyTorch and other libraries used in the book.