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

Gradient boosting – training an ensemble based on loss gradients

Gradient boosting is another variant of the boosting concept introduced in the previous section, that is, successively training weak learners to create a strong ensemble. Gradient boosting is an extremely important topic because it forms the basis of popular machine learning algorithms such as XGBoost, which is well-known for winning Kaggle competitions.

The gradient boosting algorithm may appear a bit daunting at first. So, in the following subsections, we will cover it step by step, starting with a general overview. Then, we will see how gradient boosting is used for classification and walk through an example. Finally, after we’ve introduced the fundamental concepts of gradient boosting, we will take a brief look at popular implementations, such as XGBoost, and we will see how we can use gradient boosting in practice.