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Large Scale Machine Learning with Python

You're reading from   Large Scale Machine Learning with Python Learn to build powerful machine learning models quickly and deploy large-scale predictive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887215
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alberto Boschetti Alberto Boschetti
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Bastiaan Sjardin Bastiaan Sjardin
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Luca Massaron Luca Massaron
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Preface 1. First Steps to Scalability FREE CHAPTER 2. Scalable Learning in Scikit-learn 3. Fast SVM Implementations 4. Neural Networks and Deep Learning 5. Deep Learning with TensorFlow 6. Classification and Regression Trees at Scale 7. Unsupervised Learning at Scale 8. Distributed Environments – Hadoop and Spark 9. Practical Machine Learning with Spark A. Introduction to GPUs and Theano Index

Theano – parallel computing on the GPU

Theano is a Python library originally developed by James Bergstra at the University of Montreal. It aims at providing more expressive ways to write mathematical functions with symbolic representations (F. Bastien, P. Lamblin, R. Pascanu, J. Bergstra, I. Goodfellow, A. Bergeron, N. Bouchard, D. Warde-Farley and Y. Bengio. Theano: new features and speed improvements. NIPS 2012 Deep Learning Workshop). Interestingly, Theano is named after the Greek mathematician, who may have been Pythagoras' wife. It's strongest points are fast c-compiled computations, symbolic expressions, and GPU computation, and Theano is under active development. Improvements are made regularly with new features. Theano's implementations are much wider than scalable machine learning so I will narrow down and use Theano for deep learning. Visit the Theano website for more information—http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/.

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