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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)

Transfer learning using feature extraction with the VGG16 model

As we stated in the Visualizing the MNIST dataset using PCA and t-SNE recipe of Chapter 14, Unsupervised Representation Learning, in the case of datasets of important dimensions, the data was transformed into a reduced series of representation functions. This process of transforming the input data into a set of functionalities is named feature extraction. This is because the extraction of the characteristics proceeds from an initial series of measured data and produces derived values that can keep the information contained in the original dataset, but excluded from the redundant data. In the case of images, feature extraction is aimed at obtaining information that can be identified by a computer.

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