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

Choosing a classification algorithm

Choosing an appropriate classification algorithm for a particular problem task requires practice and experience; each algorithm has its own quirks and is based on certain assumptions. To paraphrase the no free lunch theorem by David H. Wolpert, no single classifier works best across all possible scenarios (The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between Learning Algorithms, Wolpert, David H, Neural Computation 8.7 (1996): 1341-1390). In practice, it is always recommended that you compare the performance of at least a handful of different learning algorithms to select the best model for the particular problem; these may differ in the number of features or examples, the amount of noise in a dataset, and whether the classes are linearly separable.

Eventually, the performance of a classifier—computational performance as well as predictive power—depends heavily on the underlying data that is available for learning. The five main steps that...