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Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition

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Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Machine learning has gained tremendous popularity for its powerful and fast predictions with large datasets. However, the true forces behind its powerful output are the complex algorithms involving substantial statistical analysis that churn large datasets and generate substantial insight. This second edition of Machine Learning Algorithms walks you through prominent development outcomes that have taken place relating to machine learning algorithms, which constitute major contributions to the machine learning process and help you to strengthen and master statistical interpretation across the areas of supervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning. Once the core concepts of an algorithm have been covered, you’ll explore real-world examples based on the most diffused libraries, such as scikit-learn, NLTK, TensorFlow, and Keras. You will discover new topics such as principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), Bayesian regression, discriminant analysis, advanced clustering, and gaussian mixture. By the end of this book, you will have studied machine learning algorithms and be able to put them into production to make your machine learning applications more innovative.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Online Clustering

Sometimes, dataset X is too large, and the algorithms can become extremely slow, with a proportional need for memory. In these cases, it's preferable to employ a batch strategy that can learn while the data is streamed. As the number of parameters is generally very small, Online Clustering is quite fast and only a little bit less accurate than standard algorithms working with the whole dataset.

Mini-batch K-means

The first approach we are going to consider is a mini-batch version of the standard K-means algorithm. In this case, we cannot compute the centroids for all samples, and so the main problem is to define a criterion to reassign the centroids after a partial fit. The standard process is based...