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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)

Creating a vector quantizer

You can use neural networks for vector quantization as well. Vector quantization is the N-dimensional version of rounding off. This is very commonly used across multiple areas in computer vision, NLP, and machine learning in general.

Getting ready

In previous recipes, we have already addressed vector quantization concepts: Compressing an image using vector quantization and Creating features using visual Codebook and vector quantization. In this recipe, we will define a neural network with two layers—10 neurons in input layer and 4 neurons in the output layer. Then we will use this network to divide the space into four regions.

Before starting, you need to make a change to fix a library bug...