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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Nick McClure
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TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Nick McClure

Overview of this book

TensorFlow is an open source software library for Machine Intelligence. The independent recipes in this book will teach you how to use TensorFlow for complex data computations and will let you dig deeper and gain more insights into your data than ever before. You’ll work through recipes on training models, model evaluation, sentiment analysis, regression analysis, clustering analysis, artificial neural networks, and deep learning – each using Google’s machine learning library TensorFlow. This guide starts with the fundamentals of the TensorFlow library which includes variables, matrices, and various data sources. Moving ahead, you will get hands-on experience with Linear Regression techniques with TensorFlow. The next chapters cover important high-level concepts such as neural networks, CNN, RNN, and NLP. Once you are familiar and comfortable with the TensorFlow ecosystem, the last chapter will show you how to take it to production.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
TensorFlow Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Implementing a Multi-Class SVM


We can also use SVMs to categorize multiple classes instead of just two. In this recipe, we will use a multi-class SVM to categorize the three types of flowers in the iris dataset.

Getting ready

By design, SVM algorithms are binary classifiers. However, there are a few strategies employed to get them to work on multiple classes. The two main strategies are called one versus all, and one versus one.

One versus one is a strategy where a binary classifier is created for each possible pair of classes. Then a prediction is made for a point for the class that has the most votes. This can be computationally hard as we must create classifiers for k classes.

Another way to implement multi-class classifiers is to do a one versus all strategy where we create a classifier for each of the classes. The predicted class of a point will be the class that creates the largest SVM margin. This is the strategy we will implement in this section.

Here, we will load the iris dataset...