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Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By : Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N
Book Image

Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By: Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N

Overview of this book

Scala is a highly scalable integration of object-oriented nature and functional programming concepts that make it easy to build scalable and complex big data applications. This book is a handy guide for machine learning developers and data scientists who want to develop and train effective machine learning models in Scala. The book starts with an introduction to machine learning, while covering deep learning and machine learning basics. It then explains how to use Scala-based ML libraries to solve classification and regression problems using linear regression, generalized linear regression, logistic regression, support vector machine, and Naïve Bayes algorithms. It also covers tree-based ensemble techniques for solving both classification and regression problems. Moving ahead, it covers unsupervised learning techniques, such as dimensionality reduction, clustering, and recommender systems. Finally, it provides a brief overview of deep learning using a real-life example in Scala.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Overview of unsupervised learning

In unsupervised learning, an input set is provided to the system during the training phase. In contrast to supervised learning, the input objects are not labeled with their class. Although in classification analysis the training dataset is labeled, we do not always have that advantage when we collect data in the real world, but still we want to find important values or hidden structures of the data. In NeuralIPS' 2016, Facebook AI Chief Yann LeCun introduced the cake analogy:

"If intelligence was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake, and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We know how to make the icing and the cherry, but we don't know how to make the cake."

In order to create such a cake, several unsupervised learning tasks, including clustering...