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Machine Learning for Finance

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Finance Principles and practice for financial insiders

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136364
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jannes Klaas Jannes Klaas
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James Le James Le
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Machine Learning for Finance
Contributors
Preface
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Exercises


Now that we're at the end of the chapter, let's see what we've learned. To finish this chapter, I've included three exercises that will challenge you based on what we've covered in this chapter:

  1. Add an extra layer to the encoder of the translation model. The translation model might work better if it had a bit more capacity to learn the structure of French sentences. Adding one more LSTM layer will be a good exercise to learn about the functional API.

  2. Add attention to the encoder of the translation model. Attention will allow the model to focus on the (English) words that really matter for translation. It is best to use attention as the last layer. This task is a bit harder than the previous one, but you will understand the inner workings of attention much better.

  3. Visit Daily News for Stock Market Prediction at https://www.kaggle.com/aaron7sun/stocknews. The task is to use the daily news as an input to predict stock prices. There are a number of kernels already that can help you with...

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