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Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

Name: Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow
Author: Aurélien Géron
ISBN: 9781491962299

by Aurélien Géron

March 2017

Intermediate to advanced

572 pages

15h 56m

English

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Preface
The Machine Learning TsunamiMachine Learning in Your ProjectsObjective and ApproachPrerequisitesRoadmapOther ResourcesConventions Used in This BookUsing Code ExamplesO’Reilly SafariHow to Contact UsAcknowledgments
I. The Fundamentals of Machine Learning
1. The Machine Learning Landscape
What Is Machine Learning?Why Use Machine Learning?Types of Machine Learning SystemsSupervised/Unsupervised LearningBatch and Online LearningInstance-Based Versus Model-Based LearningMain Challenges of Machine LearningInsufficient Quantity of Training DataNonrepresentative Training DataPoor-Quality DataIrrelevant FeaturesOverfitting the Training DataUnderfitting the Training DataStepping BackTesting and ValidatingExercises
2. End-to-End Machine Learning Project
Working with Real DataLook at the Big PictureFrame the ProblemSelect a Performance MeasureCheck the AssumptionsGet the DataCreate the WorkspaceDownload the DataTake a Quick Look at the Data StructureCreate a Test SetDiscover and Visualize the Data to Gain InsightsVisualizing Geographical DataLooking for CorrelationsExperimenting with Attribute CombinationsPrepare the Data for Machine Learning AlgorithmsData CleaningHandling Text and Categorical AttributesCustom TransformersFeature ScalingTransformation PipelinesSelect and Train a ModelTraining and Evaluating on the Training SetBetter Evaluation Using Cross-ValidationFine-Tune Your ModelGrid SearchRandomized SearchEnsemble MethodsAnalyze the Best Models and Their ErrorsEvaluate Your System on the Test SetLaunch, Monitor, and Maintain Your SystemTry It Out!Exercises
3. Classification
MNISTTraining a Binary ClassifierPerformance MeasuresMeasuring Accuracy Using Cross-ValidationConfusion MatrixPrecision and RecallPrecision/Recall TradeoffThe ROC CurveMulticlass ClassificationError AnalysisMultilabel ClassificationMultioutput ClassificationExercises
4. Training Models
Linear RegressionThe Normal EquationComputational ComplexityGradient DescentBatch Gradient DescentStochastic Gradient DescentMini-batch Gradient DescentPolynomial RegressionLearning CurvesRegularized Linear ModelsRidge RegressionLasso RegressionElastic NetEarly StoppingLogistic RegressionEstimating ProbabilitiesTraining and Cost FunctionDecision BoundariesSoftmax RegressionExercises
5. Support Vector Machines
Linear SVM ClassificationSoft Margin ClassificationNonlinear SVM ClassificationPolynomial KernelAdding Similarity FeaturesGaussian RBF KernelComputational ComplexitySVM RegressionUnder the HoodDecision Function and PredictionsTraining ObjectiveQuadratic ProgrammingThe Dual ProblemKernelized SVMOnline SVMsExercises
6. Decision Trees
Training and Visualizing a Decision TreeMaking PredictionsEstimating Class ProbabilitiesThe CART Training AlgorithmComputational ComplexityGini Impurity or Entropy?Regularization HyperparametersRegressionInstabilityExercises
7. Ensemble Learning and Random Forests
Voting ClassifiersBagging and PastingBagging and Pasting in Scikit-LearnOut-of-Bag EvaluationRandom Patches and Random SubspacesRandom ForestsExtra-TreesFeature ImportanceBoostingAdaBoostGradient BoostingStackingExercises
8. Dimensionality Reduction
The Curse of DimensionalityMain Approaches for Dimensionality ReductionProjectionManifold LearningPCAPreserving the VariancePrincipal ComponentsProjecting Down to d DimensionsUsing Scikit-LearnExplained Variance RatioChoosing the Right Number of DimensionsPCA for CompressionRandomized PCAIncremental PCAKernel PCASelecting a Kernel and Tuning HyperparametersLLEOther Dimensionality Reduction TechniquesExercises

II. Neural Networks and Deep Learning
9. Up and Running with TensorFlow
InstallationCreating Your First Graph and Running It in a SessionManaging GraphsLifecycle of a Node ValueLinear Regression with TensorFlowImplementing Gradient DescentManually Computing the GradientsUsing autodiffUsing an OptimizerFeeding Data to the Training AlgorithmSaving and Restoring ModelsVisualizing the Graph and Training Curves Using TensorBoardName ScopesModularitySharing VariablesExercises
10. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
From Biological to Artificial NeuronsBiological NeuronsLogical Computations with NeuronsThe PerceptronMulti-Layer Perceptron and BackpropagationTraining an MLP with TensorFlow’s High-Level APITraining a DNN Using Plain TensorFlowConstruction PhaseExecution PhaseUsing the Neural NetworkFine-Tuning Neural Network HyperparametersNumber of Hidden LayersNumber of Neurons per Hidden LayerActivation FunctionsExercises
11. Training Deep Neural Nets
Vanishing/Exploding Gradients ProblemsXavier and He InitializationNonsaturating Activation FunctionsBatch NormalizationGradient ClippingReusing Pretrained LayersReusing a TensorFlow ModelReusing Models from Other FrameworksFreezing the Lower LayersCaching the Frozen LayersTweaking, Dropping, or Replacing the Upper LayersModel ZoosUnsupervised PretrainingPretraining on an Auxiliary TaskFaster OptimizersMomentum OptimizationNesterov Accelerated GradientAdaGradRMSPropAdam OptimizationLearning Rate SchedulingAvoiding Overfitting Through RegularizationEarly Stoppingℓ1 and ℓ2 RegularizationDropoutMax-Norm RegularizationData AugmentationPractical GuidelinesExercises
12. Distributing TensorFlow Across Devices and Servers
Multiple Devices on a Single MachineInstallationManaging the GPU RAMPlacing Operations on DevicesParallel ExecutionControl DependenciesMultiple Devices Across Multiple ServersOpening a SessionThe Master and Worker ServicesPinning Operations Across TasksSharding Variables Across Multiple Parameter ServersSharing State Across Sessions Using Resource ContainersAsynchronous Communication Using TensorFlow QueuesLoading Data Directly from the GraphParallelizing Neural Networks on a TensorFlow ClusterOne Neural Network per DeviceIn-Graph Versus Between-Graph ReplicationModel ParallelismData ParallelismExercises
13. Convolutional Neural Networks
The Architecture of the Visual CortexConvolutional LayerFiltersStacking Multiple Feature MapsTensorFlow ImplementationMemory RequirementsPooling LayerCNN ArchitecturesLeNet-5AlexNetGoogLeNetResNetExercises
14. Recurrent Neural Networks
Recurrent NeuronsMemory CellsInput and Output SequencesBasic RNNs in TensorFlowStatic Unrolling Through TimeDynamic Unrolling Through TimeHandling Variable Length Input SequencesHandling Variable-Length Output SequencesTraining RNNsTraining a Sequence ClassifierTraining to Predict Time SeriesCreative RNNDeep RNNsDistributing a Deep RNN Across Multiple GPUsApplying DropoutThe Difficulty of Training over Many Time StepsLSTM CellPeephole ConnectionsGRU CellNatural Language ProcessingWord EmbeddingsAn Encoder–Decoder Network for Machine TranslationExercises
15. Autoencoders
Efficient Data RepresentationsPerforming PCA with an Undercomplete Linear AutoencoderStacked AutoencodersTensorFlow ImplementationTying WeightsTraining One Autoencoder at a TimeVisualizing the ReconstructionsVisualizing FeaturesUnsupervised Pretraining Using Stacked AutoencodersDenoising AutoencodersTensorFlow ImplementationSparse AutoencodersTensorFlow ImplementationVariational AutoencodersGenerating DigitsOther AutoencodersExercises
16. Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Optimize RewardsPolicy SearchIntroduction to OpenAI GymNeural Network PoliciesEvaluating Actions: The Credit Assignment ProblemPolicy GradientsMarkov Decision ProcessesTemporal Difference Learning and Q-LearningExploration PoliciesApproximate Q-Learning and Deep Q-LearningLearning to Play Ms. Pac-Man Using the DQN AlgorithmExercisesThank You!
A. Exercise Solutions
Chapter 1: The Machine Learning LandscapeChapter 2: End-to-End Machine Learning ProjectChapter 3: ClassificationChapter 4: Training ModelsChapter 5: Support Vector MachinesChapter 6: Decision TreesChapter 7: Ensemble Learning and Random ForestsChapter 8: Dimensionality ReductionChapter 9: Up and Running with TensorFlowChapter 10: Introduction to Artificial Neural NetworksChapter 11: Training Deep Neural NetsChapter 12: Distributing TensorFlow Across Devices and ServersChapter 13: Convolutional Neural NetworksChapter 14: Recurrent Neural NetworksChapter 15: AutoencodersChapter 16: Reinforcement Learning
B. Machine Learning Project Checklist
Frame the Problem and Look at the Big PictureGet the DataExplore the DataPrepare the DataShort-List Promising ModelsFine-Tune the SystemPresent Your SolutionLaunch!
C. SVM Dual Problem
D. Autodiff
Manual DifferentiationSymbolic DifferentiationNumerical DifferentiationForward-Mode AutodiffReverse-Mode Autodiff
E. Other Popular ANN Architectures
Hopfield NetworksBoltzmann MachinesRestricted Boltzmann MachinesDeep Belief NetsSelf-Organizing Maps
Index

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Chapter 2. End-to-End Machine Learning Project

In this chapter, you will go through an example project end to end, pretending to be a recently hired data scientist in a real estate company.¹ Here are the main steps you will go through:

Look at the big picture.
Get the data.
Discover and visualize the data to gain insights.
Prepare the data for Machine Learning algorithms.
Select a model and train it.
Fine-tune your model.
Present your solution.
Launch, monitor, and maintain your system.

Working with Real Data

When you are learning about Machine Learning it is best to actually experiment with real-world data, not just artificial datasets. Fortunately, there are thousands of open datasets to choose from, ranging across all sorts of domains. Here are a few places you can look to get data:

Popular open data repositories:
Meta portals (they list open data repositories):
Other pages listing many popular open data repositories:

In this chapter we chose the California Housing Prices dataset from the StatLib repository² (see Figure 2-1). This dataset was based on data from the 1990 California census. It is not exactly recent (you could still afford a nice house in the Bay Area at the time), but it has many qualities ...

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