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Machine Learning for Finance

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Finance Principles and practice for financial insiders

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136364
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jannes Klaas Jannes Klaas
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James Le James Le
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Machine Learning for Finance
Contributors
Preface
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1. Neural Networks and Gradient-Based Optimization 2. Applying Machine Learning to Structured Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Utilizing Computer Vision 4. Understanding Time Series 5. Parsing Textual Data with Natural Language Processing 6. Using Generative Models 7. Reinforcement Learning for Financial Markets 8. Privacy, Debugging, and Launching Your Products 9. Fighting Bias 10. Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic Programming Index

Computer vision beyond classification


As we have seen, there are many techniques that we can use to make our image classifier work better. These are techniques that you'll find used throughout this book, and not only for computer vision applications.

In this final section of the chapter, we will discuss some approaches that go beyond classifying images. These tasks often require more creative use of neural networks than what we've discussed throughout this chapter.

To get the most out of this section, you don't need to worry too much about the details of the techniques presented, but instead look at how researchers were creative about using neural networks. We're taking this approach because you will often find that the tasks you are looking to solve require similar creativity.

Facial recognition

Facial recognition has many applications for retail institutions. For instance, if you're in the front office, you might want to automatically recognize your customer at an ATM, or alternatively, you...

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