FastAI Setup [2025]

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FastAI
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Agastya Patel

In this section we’ll be going through the setting up the wsl for FastAI.

This guide will help you out with setting up the fastai on your mac quickly.

Prerequistes: - Conda Command Line Tool

  1. Create conda environment
conda create -n fastai-311 python=3.11
  1. Install pytorch > Recently pytorch dropped support for distribution over conda channels so pip3 is the only way to get it done
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio
  1. Install ipython and jupyterlab
conda install ipython jupyterlab
  1. Install fastai & fastbook > fastchan has been deprecated. Use fastai as the channel to download the package from.
conda install -c fastai
  1. Install sentencepiece (tokenizer by google)
conda install sentencepiece