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Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Python Machine Learning Learn how to build powerful Python machine learning algorithms to generate useful data insights with this data analysis tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783555130
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sebastian Raschka Sebastian Raschka
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data 2. Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification FREE CHAPTER 3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using Scikit-learn 4. Building Good Training Sets – Data Preprocessing 5. Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction 6. Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning 7. Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning 8. Applying Machine Learning to Sentiment Analysis 9. Embedding a Machine Learning Model into a Web Application 10. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis 11. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis 12. Training Artificial Neural Networks for Image Recognition 13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with Theano Index

Fine-tuning machine learning models via grid search


In machine learning, we have two types of parameters: those that are learned from the training data, for example, the weights in logistic regression, and the parameters of a learning algorithm that are optimized separately. The latter are the tuning parameters, also called hyperparameters, of a model, for example, the regularization parameter in logistic regression or the depth parameter of a decision tree.

In the previous section, we used validation curves to improve the performance of a model by tuning one of its hyperparameters. In this section, we will take a look at a powerful hyperparameter optimization technique called grid search that can further help to improve the performance of a model by finding the optimal combination of hyperparameter values.

Tuning hyperparameters via grid search

The approach of grid search is quite simple, it's a brute-force exhaustive search paradigm where we specify a list of values for different hyperparameters...

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