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The Kaggle Book

You're reading from   The Kaggle Book Data analysis and machine learning for competitive data science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817479
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Konrad Banachewicz Konrad Banachewicz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Part I: Introduction to Competitions
2. Introducing Kaggle and Other Data Science Competitions FREE CHAPTER 3. Organizing Data with Datasets 4. Working and Learning with Kaggle Notebooks 5. Leveraging Discussion Forums 6. Part II: Sharpening Your Skills for Competitions
7. Competition Tasks and Metrics 8. Designing Good Validation 9. Modeling for Tabular Competitions 10. Hyperparameter Optimization 11. Ensembling with Blending and Stacking Solutions 12. Modeling for Computer Vision 13. Modeling for NLP 14. Simulation and Optimization Competitions 15. Part III: Leveraging Competitions for Your Career
16. Creating Your Portfolio of Projects and Ideas 17. Finding New Professional Opportunities 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Key parameters and how to use them

The next problem is using the right set of hyperparameters for each kind of model you use. In particular, in order to be efficient in your optimization, you need to know the values of each hyperparameter that it actually makes sense to test for each distinct algorithm.

In this section, we will examine the most common models used in Kaggle competitions, especially the tabular ones, and discuss the hyperparameters you need to tune in order to obtain the best results. We will distinguish between classical machine learning models and gradient boosting models (which are much more demanding in terms of their space of parameters) for generic tabular data problems.

As for neural networks, we can give you an idea about specific parameters to tune when we present the standard models (for instance, the TabNet neural model has some specific parameters to set so that it works properly). However, most of the optimization on deep neural networks in Kaggle...

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