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Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits

You're reading from   Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits A practical guide to implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826048
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarek Amr Tarek Amr
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Supervised Learning
2. Introduction to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Decisions with Trees 4. Making Decisions with Linear Equations 5. Preparing Your Data 6. Image Processing with Nearest Neighbors 7. Classifying Text Using Naive Bayes 8. Section 2: Advanced Supervised Learning
9. Neural Networks – Here Comes Deep Learning 10. Ensembles – When One Model Is Not Enough 11. The Y is as Important as the X 12. Imbalanced Learning – Not Even 1% Win the Lottery 13. Section 3: Unsupervised Learning and More
14. Clustering – Making Sense of Unlabeled Data 15. Anomaly Detection – Finding Outliers in Data 16. Recommender System – Getting to Know Their Taste 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring more ensembles

The main ensemble techniques are the ones we have seen so far. The following ones are also good to know about and can be useful for some peculiar cases.

Voting ensembles

Sometimes, we have a number of good estimators, each with its own mistakes. Our objective is not to mitigate their bias or variance, but to combine their predictions in the hope that they don't all make the same mistakes. In these cases, VotingClassifier and VotingRegressor could be used. You can give a higher preference to some estimators versus the others by adjusting the weights hyperparameter. VotingClassifier has different voting strategies, depending on whether the predicted class labels are to be used or whether the predicted probabilities should be used instead.

Stacking ensembles

Rather than voting, you can combine the predictions of multiple estimators by adding an extra one that uses their predictions as input. This strategy is known as...

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