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Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

By : Giuseppe Bonaccorso
Book Image

Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

By: Giuseppe Bonaccorso

Overview of this book

Unsupervised learning is about making use of raw, untagged data and applying learning algorithms to it to help a machine predict its outcome. With this book, you will explore the concept of unsupervised learning to cluster large sets of data and analyze them repeatedly until the desired outcome is found using Python. This book starts with the key differences between supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning. You will be introduced to the best-used libraries and frameworks from the Python ecosystem and address unsupervised learning in both the machine learning and deep learning domains. You will explore various algorithms, techniques that are used to implement unsupervised learning in real-world use cases. You will learn a variety of unsupervised learning approaches, including randomized optimization, clustering, feature selection and transformation, and information theory. You will get hands-on experience with how neural networks can be employed in unsupervised scenarios. You will also explore the steps involved in building and training a GAN in order to process images. By the end of this book, you will have learned the art of unsupervised learning for different real-world challenges.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Spectral clustering

One of the most common algorithm families that can manage non-convex clusters is spectral clustering. The main idea is to project the dataset X on a space where the clusters can be captured by hyperspheres (for example, using K-means). This result can be achieved in different ways, but, as the goal of the algorithm is to remove the concavities of generic shaped regions, the first step is always the representation of X as a graph G={V, E}, where the vertices V ≡ X and the weighted edges represent the proximity of every couple of samples xi, xj ∈ X through the parameter wij ≥ 0. The resulting graph can be either complete (fully connected) or it can have edges only between some sample couples (that is, the weight of non-existing weights is set equal to zero). In the following diagram, there's an example of a partial graph:

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