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Machine Learning for Developers

By : Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan
Book Image

Machine Learning for Developers

By: Rodolfo Bonnin, Md Mahmudul Hasan

Overview of this book

Most of us have heard about the term Machine Learning, but surprisingly the question frequently asked by developers across the globe is, “How do I get started in Machine Learning?”. One reason could be attributed to the vastness of the subject area because people often get overwhelmed by the abstractness of ML and terms such as regression, supervised learning, probability density function, and so on. This book is a systematic guide teaching you how to implement various Machine Learning techniques and their day-to-day application and development. You will start with the very basics of data and mathematical models in easy-to-follow language that you are familiar with; you will feel at home while implementing the examples. The book will introduce you to various libraries and frameworks used in the world of Machine Learning, and then, without wasting any time, you will get to the point and implement Regression, Clustering, classification, Neural networks, and more with fun examples. As you get to grips with the techniques, you’ll learn to implement those concepts to solve real-world scenarios for ML applications such as image analysis, Natural Language processing, and anomaly detections of time series data. By the end of the book, you will have learned various ML techniques to develop more efficient and intelligent applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning is a field that has resurfaced recently, and it has become more popular in the fields of control, finding the solutions to games and situational problems, where a number of steps have to be implemented to solve a problem.

A formal definition of reinforcement learning is as follows:

"Reinforcement learning is the problem faced by an agent that must learn behavior through trial-and-error interactions with a dynamic environment.” (Kaelbling et al. 1996).

In order to have a reference frame for the type of problem we want to solve, we will start by going back to a mathematical concept developed in the 1950s, called the Markov decision process.

Markov decision process

Before...