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Python Machine Learning by Example - Third Edition

By : Yuxi (Hayden) Liu
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Python Machine Learning by Example - Third Edition

By: Yuxi (Hayden) Liu

Overview of this book

Python Machine Learning By Example, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive gateway into the world of machine learning (ML). With six new chapters, on topics including movie recommendation engine development with Naïve Bayes, recognizing faces with support vector machine, predicting stock prices with artificial neural networks, categorizing images of clothing with convolutional neural networks, predicting with sequences using recurring neural networks, and leveraging reinforcement learning for making decisions, the book has been considerably updated for the latest enterprise requirements. At the same time, this book provides actionable insights on the key fundamentals of ML with Python programming. Hayden applies his expertise to demonstrate implementations of algorithms in Python, both from scratch and with libraries. Each chapter walks through an industry-adopted application. With the help of realistic examples, you will gain an understanding of the mechanics of ML techniques in areas such as exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, classification, regression, clustering, and NLP. By the end of this ML Python book, you will have gained a broad picture of the ML ecosystem and will be well-versed in the best practices of applying ML techniques to solve problems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Categorizing Images of Clothing with Convolutional Neural Networks

The previous chapter wrapped up our coverage of the best practices for general and traditional machine learning. Starting from this chapter, we will dive into the more advanced topics of deep learning and reinforcement learning.

When we deal with image classification, we usually flatten the images and get vectors of pixels and feed them to a neural network (or another model). Although this might do the job, we lose critical spatial information. In this chapter, we will use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to extract rich and distinguishable representations from images. You will see how CNN representations make a "9" a "9", a "4" a "4", a cat a cat, or a dog a dog.

We will start with exploring individual building blocks in the CNN architecture. Then, we will develop a CNN classifier in TensorFlow to categorize clothing images and demystify the convolutional mechanism...