You're reading from Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819312

Length 774 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyTorch

Concepts

Deep Learning

Authors (3):

Sebastian Raschka

Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Vahid Mirjalili

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data FREE CHAPTER

2. Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification

3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using Scikit-Learn

4. Building Good Training Datasets – 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. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis

10. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis

11. Implementing a Multilayer Artificial Neural Network from Scratch

12. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with PyTorch

13. Going Deeper – The Mechanics of PyTorch

14. Classifying Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

15. Modeling Sequential Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks

16. Transformers – Improving Natural Language Processing with Attention Mechanisms

17. Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthesizing New Data

18. Graph Neural Networks for Capturing Dependencies in Graph Structured Data

19. Reinforcement Learning for Decision Making in Complex Environments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Dealing with nonlinear relationships using random forests

In this section, we are going to look at random forest regression, which is conceptually different from the previous regression models in this chapter. A random forest, which is an ensemble of multiple decision trees, can be understood as the sum of piecewise linear functions, in contrast to the global linear and polynomial regression models that we discussed previously. In other words, via the decision tree algorithm, we subdivide the input space into smaller regions that become more manageable.

Decision tree regression

An advantage of the decision tree algorithm is that it works with arbitrary features and does not require any transformation of the features if we are dealing with nonlinear data because decision trees analyze one feature at a time, rather than taking weighted combinations into account. (Likewise, normalizing or standardizing features is not required for decision trees.) As mentioned in Chapter 3, A...