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Hands-On Machine Learning with C++

By : Kirill Kolodiazhnyi
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Hands-On Machine Learning with C++

By: Kirill Kolodiazhnyi

Overview of this book

C++ can make your machine learning models run faster and more efficiently. This handy guide will help you learn the fundamentals of machine learning (ML), showing you how to use C++ libraries to get the most out of your data. This book makes machine learning with C++ for beginners easy with its example-based approach, demonstrating how to implement supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms through real-world examples. This book will get you hands-on with tuning and optimizing a model for different use cases, assisting you with model selection and the measurement of performance. You’ll cover techniques such as product recommendations, ensemble learning, and anomaly detection using modern C++ libraries such as PyTorch C++ API, Caffe2, Shogun, Shark-ML, mlpack, and dlib. Next, you’ll explore neural networks and deep learning using examples such as image classification and sentiment analysis, which will help you solve various problems. Later, you’ll learn how to handle production and deployment challenges on mobile and cloud platforms, before discovering how to export and import models using the ONNX format. By the end of this C++ book, you will have real-world machine learning and C++ knowledge, as well as the skills to use C++ to build powerful ML systems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Overview of Machine Learning
5
Section 2: Machine Learning Algorithms
12
Section 3: Advanced Examples
15
Section 4: Production and Deployment Challenges

Exploring RNN architectures

In this section, we will have a look at various kinds of RNN architectures. We will also understand how they differ from each other based on their nature and implementations.

LSTM

Long short-term memory (LSTM) is a special kind of RNN architecture that's capable of learning long-term dependencies. It was introduced by Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber in 1997 and was then improved on and presented in the works of many other researchers. It perfectly solves many of the various problems we've discussed, and are now widely used.

In LSTM, each cell has a memory cell and three gates (filters): an input gate, an output gate, and a forgetting gate. The purpose of these gates is to...