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Hands-On Machine Learning with C++

By : Kirill Kolodiazhnyi
Book Image

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

Examples of using C++ libraries for dealing with the classification task

Let's now see how to use the methods we've described for solving a classification task on artificial datasets, which we can see in the following screenshot:

As we can see, these datasets contain two and three different classes of objects, so it makes sense to use methods for multi-class classification because such tasks appear more often in real life; they can be easily reduced to binary classification.

Classification is a supervised technique, so we usually have a training dataset, as well as new data for classification. To model this situation, we will use two datasets in our examples, one for training and one for testing. They come from the same distribution in one large dataset. However, the test set won't be used for training, therefore we can evaluate the accuracy metric and see how...