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Mastering Java Machine Learning

by Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella

July 2017

Beginner to intermediate

556 pages

13h 8m

English

Packt Publishing

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ErrataPiracyQuestions
Machine learning – history and definition
RolesProcess
Datasets
Formal description and notationData quality analysisDescriptive data analysisBasic label analysisBasic feature analysisVisualization analysisUnivariate feature analysisCategorical featuresContinuous featuresMultivariate feature analysis
Feature constructionHandling missing valuesOutliersDiscretizationData samplingIs sampling needed?Undersampling and oversamplingStratified samplingTraining, validation, and test set
Feature search techniquesFeature evaluation techniquesFilter approachUnivariate feature selectionInformation theoretic approachStatistical approachMultivariate feature selectionMinimal redundancy maximal relevance (mRMR)Correlation-based feature selection (CFS)Wrapper approachEmbedded approach
Linear modelsLinear RegressionAlgorithm input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsNaïve BayesAlgorithm input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsLogistic RegressionAlgorithm input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsNon-linear modelsDecision TreesAlgorithm inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsK-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)Algorithm inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsSupport vector machines (SVM)Algorithm inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsEnsemble learning and meta learnersBootstrap aggregating or baggingAlgorithm inputs and outputsHow does it work?Random ForestAdvantages and limitationsBoostingAlgorithm inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitations
Model assessmentModel evaluation metricsConfusion matrix and related metricsROC and PRC curvesGain charts and lift curvesModel comparisonsComparing two algorithmsMcNemar's TestPaired-t testWilcoxon signed-rank testComparing multiple algorithmsANOVA testFriedman's test
Business problemMachine learning mappingData analysisLabel analysisFeatures analysisSupervised learning experimentsWeka experimentsSample end-to-end process in JavaWeka experimenter and model selectionRapidMiner experimentsVisualization analysisFeature selectionModel process flowModel evaluation metricsEvaluation on Confusion MetricsROC Curves, Lift Curves, and Gain ChartsResults, observations, and analysis
Issues in common with supervised learning
NotationLinear methodsPrincipal component analysis (PCA)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsRandom projections (RP)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsMultidimensional Scaling (MDS)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsNonlinear methodsKernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsManifold learningInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitations
Clustering algorithmsk-MeansInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDBSCANInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsMean shiftInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsExpectation maximization (EM) or Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM)Input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsHierarchical clusteringInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsSelf-organizing maps (SOM)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsSpectral clusteringInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsAffinity propagationInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsClustering validation and evaluationInternal evaluation measuresNotationR-SquaredDunn's IndicesDavies-Bouldin indexSilhouette's indexExternal evaluation measuresRand indexF-MeasureNormalized mutual information index
Outlier algorithmsStatistical-basedInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDistance-based methodsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDensity-based methodsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsClustering-based methodsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsHigh-dimensional-based methodsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsOne-class SVMInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsOutlier evaluation techniquesSupervised evaluationUnsupervised evaluation
Tools and softwareBusiness problemMachine learning mappingData collectionData quality analysisData sampling and transformationFeature analysis and dimensionality reductionPCARandom projectionsISOMAPObservations on feature analysis and dimensionality reductionClustering models, results, and evaluationObservations and clustering analysisOutlier models, results, and evaluationObservations and analysis
Semi-supervised learningRepresentation, notation, and assumptionsSemi-supervised learning techniquesSelf-training SSLInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsCo-training SSL or multi-view SSLInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsCluster and label SSLInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsTransductive graph label propagationInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsTransductive SVM (TSVM)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsCase study in semi-supervised learningTools and softwareBusiness problemMachine learning mappingData collectionData quality analysisData sampling and transformationDatasets and analysisFeature analysis resultsExperiments and resultsAnalysis of semi-supervised learning
Representation and notationActive learning scenariosActive learning approachesUncertainty samplingHow does it work?Least confident samplingSmallest margin samplingLabel entropy samplingAdvantages and limitationsVersion space samplingQuery by disagreement (QBD)How does it work?Query by Committee (QBC)How does it work?Advantages and limitationsData distribution samplingHow does it work?Expected model changeExpected error reductionVariance reductionDensity weighted methodsAdvantages and limitations
Tools and softwareBusiness problemMachine learning mappingData CollectionData sampling and transformationFeature analysis and dimensionality reductionModels, results, and evaluationPool-based scenariosStream-based scenariosAnalysis of active learning results
Assumptions and mathematical notations
Stream computationsSliding windowsSampling
Data managementPartial memoryFull memoryDetection methodsMonitoring model evolutionWidmer and KubatDrift Detection Method or DDMEarly Drift Detection Method or EDDMMonitoring distribution changesWelch's t testKolmogorov-Smirnov's testCUSUM and Page-Hinckley testAdaptation methodsExplicit adaptationImplicit adaptation
Modeling techniquesLinear algorithmsOnline linear models with loss functionsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsOnline Naïve BayesInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsNon-linear algorithmsHoeffding trees or very fast decision trees (VFDT)Inputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsEnsemble algorithmsWeighted majority algorithmInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsOnline Bagging algorithmInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsOnline Boosting algorithmInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsValidation, evaluation, and comparisons in online settingModel validation techniquesPrequential evaluationHoldout evaluationControlled permutationsEvaluation criteriaComparing algorithms and metrics
Modeling techniquesPartition basedOnline k-MeansInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsHierarchical based and micro clusteringInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDensity basedInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsGrid basedInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsValidation and evaluation techniquesKey issues in stream cluster evaluationEvaluation measuresCluster Mapping Measures (CMM)V-MeasureOther external measures
Partition-based clustering for outlier detectionInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDistance-based clustering for outlier detectionInputs and outputsHow does it work?Exact StormAbstract-CDirect Update of Events (DUE)Micro Clustering based Algorithm (MCOD)Approx StormAdvantages and limitationsValidation and evaluation techniques
Tools and softwareBusiness problemMachine learning mappingData collectionData sampling and transformationFeature analysis and dimensionality reductionModels, results, and evaluationSupervised learning experimentsConcept drift experimentsClustering experimentsOutlier detection experimentsAnalysis of stream learning results
Probability revisitedConcepts in probabilityConditional probabilityChain rule and Bayes' theoremRandom variables, joint, and marginal distributionsMarginal independence and conditional independenceFactorsFactor typesDistribution queriesProbabilistic queriesMAP queries and marginal MAP queries
Graph structure and propertiesSubgraphs and cliquesPath, trail, and cycles
RepresentationDefinitionReasoning patternsCausal or predictive reasoningEvidential or diagnostic reasoningIntercausal reasoningCombined reasoningIndependencies, flow of influence, D-Separation, I-MapFlow of influenceD-SeparationI-MapInferenceElimination-based inferenceVariable elimination algorithmInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsClique tree or junction tree algorithmInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsPropagation-based techniquesBelief propagationFactor graphMessaging in factor graphInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsSampling-based techniquesForward sampling with rejectionInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsLearningLearning parametersMaximum likelihood estimation for Bayesian networksBayesian parameter estimation for Bayesian networkPrior and posterior using the Dirichlet distributionLearning structuresMeasures to evaluate structuresMethods for learning structuresConstraint-based techniquesInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsSearch and score-based techniquesInputs and outputsHow does it work?Advantages and limitations
RepresentationParameterizationGibbs parameterizationFactor graphsLog-linear modelsIndependenciesGlobalPairwise MarkovMarkov blanketInferenceLearningConditional random fields
Tree augmented networkInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsMarkov chainsHidden Markov modelsMost probable path in HMMPosterior decoding in HMM
OpenMarkovWeka Bayesian Network GUI
Business problemMachine learning mappingData sampling and transformationFeature analysisModels, results, and evaluationAnalysis of results
Multi-layer feed-forward neural networkInputs, neurons, activation function, and mathematical notationMulti-layered neural networkStructure and mathematical notationsActivation functions in NNSigmoid functionHyperbolic tangent ("tanh") functionTraining neural networkEmpirical risk minimizationParameter initializationLoss functionGradientsGradient at the output layerGradient at the Hidden LayerParameter gradientFeed forward and backpropagationHow does it work?RegularizationL2 regularizationL1 regularization
Vanishing gradients, local optimum, and slow training
Building blocks for deep learningRectified linear activation functionRestricted Boltzmann MachinesDefinition and mathematical notationConditional distributionFree energy in RBMTraining the RBMSampling in RBMContrastive divergenceInputs and outputsHow does it work?Persistent contrastive divergenceAutoencodersDefinition and mathematical notationsLoss functionLimitations of AutoencodersDenoising AutoencoderUnsupervised pre-training and supervised fine-tuningDeep feed-forward NNInput and outputsHow does it work?Deep AutoencodersDeep Belief NetworksInputs and outputsHow does it work?Deep learning with dropoutsDefinition and mathematical notationInputs and outputsHow does it work?Learning Training and testing with dropoutsSparse codingConvolutional Neural NetworkLocal connectivityParameter sharingDiscrete convolutionPooling or subsamplingNormalization using ReLUCNN LayersRecurrent Neural NetworksStructure of Recurrent Neural NetworksLearning and associated problems in RNNsLong Short Term MemoryGated Recurrent Units
Tools and softwareBusiness problemMachine learning mappingData sampling and transforFeature analysisModels, results, and evaluationBasic data handlingMulti-layer perceptronParameters used for MLPCode for MLPConvolutional NetworkParameters used for ConvNetCode for CNNVariational AutoencoderParameters used for the Variational AutoencoderCode for Variational AutoencoderDBNParameter search using ArbiterResults and analysis
NLP, subfields, and tasksText categorizationPart-of-speech tagging (POS tagging)Text clusteringInformation extraction and named entity recognitionSentiment analysis and opinion miningCoreference resolutionWord sense disambiguationMachine translationSemantic reasoning and inferencingText summarizationAutomating question and answers
Document collection and standardizationInputs and outputsHow does it work?TokenizationInputs and outputsHow does it work?Stop words removalInputs and outputsHow does it work?Stemming or lemmatizationInputs and outputsHow does it work?Local/global dictionary or vocabulary?Feature extraction/generationLexical featuresCharacter-based featuresWord-based featuresPart-of-speech tagging featuresTaxonomy featuresSyntactic featuresSemantic featuresFeature representation and similarityVector space modelBinaryTerm frequency (TF)Inverse document frequency (IDF)Term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)Similarity measuresEuclidean distanceCosine distancePairwise-adaptive similarityExtended Jaccard coefficientDice coefficientFeature selection and dimensionality reductionFeature selectionInformation theoretic techniquesStatistical-based techniquesFrequency-based techniquesDimensionality reduction
Text categorization/classificationTopic modelingProbabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA)Input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsText clusteringFeature transformation, selection, and reductionClustering techniquesGenerative probabilistic modelsInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDistance-based text clusteringNon-negative matrix factorization (NMF)Input and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsEvaluation of text clusteringNamed entity recognitionHidden Markov models for NERInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsMaximum entropy Markov models for NERInput and outputHow does it work?Advantages and limitationsDeep learning and NLP
MalletKNIMETopic modeling with malletBusiness problemMachine Learning mappingData collectionData sampling and transformationFeature analysis and dimensionality reductionModels, results, and evaluationAnalysis of text processing results
What are the characteristics of Big Data?
General Big Data frameworkBig Data cluster deployment frameworksHortonworks Data PlatformCloudera CDHAmazon Elastic MapReduceMicrosoft Azure HDInsightData acquisitionPublish-subscribe frameworksSource-sink frameworksSQL frameworksMessage queueing frameworksCustom frameworksData storageHDFSNoSQLKey-value databasesDocument databasesColumnar databasesGraph databasesData processing and preparationHive and HQLSpark SQLAmazon RedshiftReal-time stream processingMachine LearningVisualization and analysis
H2O as Big Data Machine Learning platformH2O architectureMachine learning in H2OTools and usage
Business problemMachine Learning mappingData collectionData sampling and transformationExperiments, results, and analysisFeature relevance and analysisEvaluation on test dataAnalysis of resultsSpark MLlib as Big Data Machine Learning platformSpark architectureMachine Learning in MLlibTools and usageExperiments, results, and analysisk-Meansk-Means with PCABisecting k-Means (with PCA)Gaussian Mixture ModelRandom ForestAnalysis of resultsReal-time Big Data Machine LearningSAMOA as a real-time Big Data Machine Learning frameworkSAMOA architectureMachine Learning algorithmsTools and usageExperiments, results, and analysisAnalysis of resultsThe future of Machine LearningSummaryReferences
VectorScalar product of vectors
Transpose of a matrixMatrix additionScalar multiplicationMatrix multiplicationProperties of matrix productLinear transformationMatrix inverseEigendecompositionPositive definite matrixSingular value decomposition (SVD)
Axioms of probability
Density estimationMeanVarianceStandard deviationGaussian standard deviationCovarianceCorrelation coefficientBinomial distributionPoisson distributionGaussian distributionCentral limit theoremError propagation

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Data transformation and preprocessing

In this section, we will cover the broad topic of data transformation. The main idea of data transformation is to take the input data and transform it in careful ways so as to clean it, extract the most relevant information from it, and to turn it into a usable form for further analysis and learning. During these transformations, we must only use methods that are designed while keeping in mind not to add any bias or artifacts that would affect the integrity of the data.

Feature construction

In the case of some datasets, we need to create more features from features we are already given. Typically, some form of aggregation is done using common aggregators such as average, sum, minimum, or maximum to create additional ...