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You're reading from Python Machine Learning, Second Edition Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125933

Length 622 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scikit-learn

Concepts

Deep Learning

Authors (2):

Vahid Mirjalili

Sebastian Raschka

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data

2. Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification FREE CHAPTER

3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn

4. Building Good Training Sets – 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. Embedding a Machine Learning Model into a Web Application

10. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis

11. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis

12. Implementing a Multilayer Artificial Neural Network from Scratch

13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with TensorFlow

14. Going Deeper – The Mechanics of TensorFlow

15. Classifying Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

16. Modeling Sequential Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Index

Leveraging weak learners via adaptive boosting

In this last section about ensemble methods, we will discuss boosting with a special focus on its most common implementation, AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting).

Note

The original idea behind AdaBoost was formulated by Robert E. Schapire in 1990. The Strength of Weak Learnability, R. E. Schapire, Machine Learning, 5(2): 197-227, 1990. After Robert Schapire and Yoav Freund presented the AdaBoost algorithm in the Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference (ICML 1996), AdaBoost became one of the most widely used ensemble methods in the years that followed (Experiments with a New Boosting Algorithm by Y. Freund, R. E. Schapire, and others, ICML, volume 96, 148-156, 1996). In 2003, Freund and Schapire received the Goedel Prize for their groundbreaking work, which is a prestigious prize for the most outstanding publications in the field of computer science.