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Large Scale Machine Learning with Python

By : Luca Massaron, Bastiaan Sjardin, Alberto Boschetti
Book Image

Large Scale Machine Learning with Python

By: Luca Massaron, Bastiaan Sjardin, Alberto Boschetti

Overview of this book

Large Python machine learning projects involve new problems associated with specialized machine learning architectures and designs that many data scientists have yet to tackle. But finding algorithms and designing and building platforms that deal with large sets of data is a growing need. Data scientists have to manage and maintain increasingly complex data projects, and with the rise of big data comes an increasing demand for computational and algorithmic efficiency. Large Scale Machine Learning with Python uncovers a new wave of machine learning algorithms that meet scalability demands together with a high predictive accuracy. Dive into scalable machine learning and the three forms of scalability. Speed up algorithms that can be used on a desktop computer with tips on parallelization and memory allocation. Get to grips with new algorithms that are specifically designed for large projects and can handle bigger files, and learn about machine learning in big data environments. We will also cover the most effective machine learning techniques on a map reduce framework in Hadoop and Spark in Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Large Scale Machine Learning with Python
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

GPU Computing


If you have a CUDA compatible graphics card installed, you can utilize your GPU for this CNN example by placing the following piece of code on top of your IDE:

import os
os.environ['THEANO_FLAGS'] = 'device=gpu0, assert_no_cpu_op=raise, on_unused_input=ignore, floatX=float32'

We do recommend however to first try this example on your regular CPU.

Let's first import and prepare the data.

We use a 32 x 32 input size considering this is the actual size of the image:

from keras.datasets import cifar10
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.core import Dense, Dropout, Activation, Flatten
from keras.layers.convolutional import Convolution2D, MaxPooling2D
from keras.optimizers import SGD
from keras.utils import np_utils

batch_size = 32
nb_classes = 10
nb_epoch = 5 #these are the number of epochs, watch out because it might set your #cpu/gpu on fire.


# input image dimensions
img_rows, img_cols = 32, 32
# the CIFAR10...