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Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi
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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)

Transfer learning with pretrained image classifiers using ResNet-50

The residual network (ResNet) represents an architecture that, through the use of new and innovative types of blocks (known as residual blocks) and the concept of residual learning, has allowed researchers to reach depths that were unthinkable with the classic feedforward model, due to the problem of the degradation of the gradient.

Pretrained models are trained on a large set of data, and so they allow us to obtain excellent performance. We can therefore adopt pretrained models for a problem similar to the one that we want to solve, to avoid the problem of a lack of data. Because of the computational costs of the formation of such models, they are available in ready-to-use formats. For example, the Keras library offers several models such as Xception, VGG16, VGG19, ResNet, ResNetV2, ResNeXt, InceptionV3, InceptionResNetV2...