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Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition

You're reading from  Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347999
Pages 522 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface 1. A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning 2. Important Elements in Machine Learning 3. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering 4. Regression Algorithms 5. Linear Classification Algorithms 6. Naive Bayes and Discriminant Analysis 7. Support Vector Machines 8. Decision Trees and Ensemble Learning 9. Clustering Fundamentals 10. Advanced Clustering 11. Hierarchical Clustering 12. Introducing Recommendation Systems 13. Introducing Natural Language Processing 14. Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in NLP 15. Introducing Neural Networks 16. Advanced Deep Learning Models 17. Creating a Machine Learning Architecture 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Evaluation methods based on the ground truth

In this section, we will present some evaluation methods that require knowledge of the ground truth. This condition is not always easy to obtain because clustering is normally applied as an unsupervised method; however, in some cases, the training set has been manually (or automatically) labeled, and it's useful to evaluate a model before predicting the clusters of new samples.

Homogeneity

An important requirement for a clustering algorithm (given the ground truth) is that each cluster should only contain samples belonging to a single class. In Chapter 2, Important Elements in Machine Learning, we have defined the concepts of entropy H(X) and conditional entropy H(X|Y), which...

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