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Machine Learning with Swift

By : Jojo Moolayil, Alexander Sosnovshchenko, Oleksandr Baiev
Book Image

Machine Learning with Swift

By: Jojo Moolayil, Alexander Sosnovshchenko, Oleksandr Baiev

Overview of this book

Machine learning as a field promises to bring increased intelligence to the software by helping us learn and analyse information efficiently and discover certain patterns that humans cannot. This book will be your guide as you embark on an exciting journey in machine learning using the popular Swift language. We’ll start with machine learning basics in the first part of the book to develop a lasting intuition about fundamental machine learning concepts. We explore various supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques and how to implement them in Swift, while the third section walks you through deep learning techniques with the help of typical real-world cases. In the last section, we will dive into some hard core topics such as model compression, GPU acceleration and provide some recommendations to avoid common mistakes during machine learning application development. By the end of the book, you'll be able to develop intelligent applications written in Swift that can learn for themselves.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The pros and cons of Apriori


The pros of Apriori are as follows:

  • This is the most simple and easy-to-understand algorithm among association rule learning algorithms
  • The resulting rules are intuitive and easy to communicate to an end user
  • It doesn't require labeled data as it is fully unsupervised; as a result, you can use it in many different situations because unlabeled data is often more accessible
  • Many extensions were proposed for different use cases based on this implementation—for example, there are association learning algorithms that take into account the ordering of items, their number, and associated timestamps
  • The algorithm is exhaustive, so it finds all the rules with the specified support and confidence

The cons of Apriori are as follows:

  • If the dataset is small, the algorithm can find many false associations that happened simply by chance. You can address this issue by evaluating obtained rules on the held-out test data for the support, confidence, lift, and conviction values.
  • As Agrawal...