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Machine Learning Algorithms

You're reading from   Machine Learning Algorithms A reference guide to popular algorithms for data science and machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889622
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giuseppe Bonaccorso Giuseppe Bonaccorso
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Important Elements in Machine Learning 3. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering 4. Linear Regression 5. Logistic Regression 6. Naive Bayes 7. Support Vector Machines 8. Decision Trees and Ensemble Learning 9. Clustering Fundamentals 10. Hierarchical Clustering 11. Introduction to Recommendation Systems 12. Introduction to Natural Language Processing 13. Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in NLP 14. A Brief Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow 15. Creating a Machine Learning Architecture

A bidimensional example

Let's consider a small dataset built by adding some uniform noise to the points belonging to a segment bounded between -6 and 6. The original equation is: y = x + 2 + n, where n is a noise term.

In the following figure, there's a plot with a candidate regression function:

As we're working on a plane, the regressor we're looking for is a function of only two parameters:

In order to fit our model, we must find the best parameters and to do that we choose an ordinary least squares approach. The loss function to minimize is:

With an analytic approach, in order to find the global minimum, we must impose:

So (for simplicity, it accepts a vector containing both variables):

import numpy as np

def loss(v):
e = 0.0
for i in range(nb_samples):
e += np.square(v[0] + v[1]*X[i] - Y[i])
return 0.5 * e

And the gradient can be defined...

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