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Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

By : Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili
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Book Image

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

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By: Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and deep learning with PyTorch. It acts as both a step-by-step tutorial and a reference you'll keep coming back to as you build your machine learning systems. Packed with clear explanations, visualizations, and examples, the book covers all the essential machine learning techniques in depth. While some books teach you only to follow instructions, with this machine learning book, we teach the principles allowing you to build models and applications for yourself. Why PyTorch? PyTorch is the Pythonic way to learn machine learning, making it easier to learn and simpler to code with. This book explains the essential parts of PyTorch and how to create models using popular libraries, such as PyTorch Lightning and PyTorch Geometric. You will also learn about generative adversarial networks (GANs) for generating new data and training intelligent agents with reinforcement learning. Finally, this new edition is expanded to cover the latest trends in deep learning, including graph neural networks and large-scale transformers used for natural language processing (NLP). This PyTorch book is your companion to machine learning with Python, whether you're a Python developer new to machine learning or want to deepen your knowledge of the latest developments.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about two fundamental dimensionality reduction techniques for feature extraction: PCA and LDA. Using PCA, we projected data onto a lower-dimensional subspace to maximize the variance along the orthogonal feature axes, while ignoring the class labels. LDA, in contrast to PCA, is a technique for supervised dimensionality reduction, which means that it considers class information in the training dataset to attempt to maximize the class separability in a linear feature space. Lastly, you also learned about t-SNE, which is a nonlinear feature extraction technique that can be used for visualizing data in two or three dimensions.

Equipped with PCA and LDA as fundamental data preprocessing techniques, you are now well prepared to learn about the best practices for efficiently incorporating different preprocessing techniques and evaluating the performance of different models in the next chapter.

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