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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)

Building a recurrent neural network for sequential data analysis

Recurrent neural networks are really good at analyzing sequential and time-series data. A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a neural model in which a bidirectional flow of information is present. In other words, while the propagation of signals in feedforward networks takes place only in a continuous manner, going from inputs to outputs, recurrent networks are different. In them, this propagation can also occur from a neural layer following a previous one, or between neurons belonging to the same layer, and even between a neuron and itself.

Getting ready

When we deal with sequential and time-series data, we cannot just extend generic models. The temporal dependencies...