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Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi

Overview of this book

This eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks. With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Implementing the deep Q-learning algorithm

Deep Q-learning represents an evolution of the basic Q-learning method. The state-action is replaced by a neural network, with the aim of approximating the optimal value function. Compared to the Q-learning approaches, where it was used to structure the network in order to request both input and action and providing its expected return, deep Q-learning revolutionizes the structure to request only the state of the environment and supply as many status-action values as there are actions that can be performed in the environment.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the deep Q-learning approaches to controls a character's movement in a grid world. In this recipe, the keras-rl...