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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with Python

Hands-On Ensemble Learning with Python

By : Kyriakides, Margaritis
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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with Python

Hands-On Ensemble Learning with Python

By: Kyriakides, Margaritis

Overview of this book

Ensembling is a technique of combining two or more similar or dissimilar machine learning algorithms to create a model that delivers superior predictive power. This book will demonstrate how you can use a variety of weak algorithms to make a strong predictive model. With its hands-on approach, you'll not only get up to speed with the basic theory but also the application of different ensemble learning techniques. Using examples and real-world datasets, you'll be able to produce better machine learning models to solve supervised learning problems such as classification and regression. In addition to this, you'll go on to leverage ensemble learning techniques such as clustering to produce unsupervised machine learning models. As you progress, the chapters will cover different machine learning algorithms that are widely used in the practical world to make predictions and classifications. You'll even get to grips with the use of Python libraries such as scikit-learn and Keras for implementing different ensemble models. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in ensemble learning, and have the skills you need to understand which ensemble method is required for which problem, and successfully implement them in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction and Required Software Tools
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Section 2: Non-Generative Methods
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Section 3: Generative Methods
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Section 4: Clustering
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Section 5: Real World Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we presented the main concept of creating bootstrap samples and estimating bootstrap statistics. Building on this foundation, we introduced bootstrap aggregating, or bagging, which uses a number of bootstrap samples to train many base learners that utilize the same machine learning algorithm. Later, we provided a custom implementation of bagging for classification, as well as the means to parallelize it. Finally, we showcased the use of scikit-learn's own implementation of bagging for regression and classification problems.

The chapter can be summarized as follows. Bootstrap samples are created by resampling with replacement from the original dataset. The main idea is to treat the original sample as the population, and each subsample as an original sample. If the original dataset and the bootstrap dataset have the same size, each instance has a probability...

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