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Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

By : Benjamin Johnston, Aaron Jones, Christopher Kruger
Book Image

Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python

By: Benjamin Johnston, Aaron Jones, Christopher Kruger

Overview of this book

Unsupervised learning is a useful and practical solution in situations where labeled data is not available. Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python guides you in learning the best practices for using unsupervised learning techniques in tandem with Python libraries and extracting meaningful information from unstructured data. The book begins by explaining how basic clustering works to find similar data points in a set. Once you are well-versed with the k-means algorithm and how it operates, you’ll learn what dimensionality reduction is and where to apply it. As you progress, you’ll learn various neural network techniques and how they can improve your model. While studying the applications of unsupervised learning, you will also understand how to mine topics that are trending on Twitter and Facebook and build a news recommendation engine for users. Finally, you will be able to put your knowledge to work through interesting activities such as performing a Market Basket Analysis and identifying relationships between different products. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to confidently build your own models using Python.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Applied Unsupervised Learning with Python
Preface

Chapter 5. Autoencoders

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Explain where autoencoders can be applied and their use cases

  • Understand how artificial neural networks are implemented and used

  • Implement an artificial neural network using the Keras framework

  • Explain how autoencoders are used in dimensionality reduction and denoising

  • Implement an autoencoder using the Keras framework

  • Explain and implement an autoencoder model using convolutional neural networks

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In this chapter, we will take a look at autoencoders and their applications.