You're reading from Python Machine Learning Learn how to build powerful Python machine learning algorithms to generate useful data insights with this data analysis tutorial

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783555130

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

SciPy

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Sebastian Raschka

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data

2. Training 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. Training Artificial Neural Networks for Image Recognition

13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with Theano

Index

Training neural networks efficiently using Keras

In this section, we will take a look at Keras, one of the most recently developed libraries to facilitate neural network training. The development on Keras started in the early months of 2015; as of today, it has evolved into one of the most popular and widely used libraries that are built on top of Theano, and allows us to utilize our GPU to accelerate neural network training. One of its prominent features is that it's a very intuitive API, which allows us to implement neural networks in only a few lines of code. Once you have Theano installed, you can install Keras from PyPI by executing the following command from your terminal command line:

pip install Keras

For more information about Keras, please visit the official website at http://keras.io.

To see what neural network training via Keras looks like, let's implement a multilayer perceptron to classify the handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset, which we introduced in the previous...