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Hyperparameter Tuning with Python

By : Louis Owen
Book Image

Hyperparameter Tuning with Python

By: Louis Owen

Overview of this book

Hyperparameters are an important element in building useful machine learning models. This book curates numerous hyperparameter tuning methods for Python, one of the most popular coding languages for machine learning. Alongside in-depth explanations of how each method works, you will use a decision map that can help you identify the best tuning method for your requirements. You’ll start with an introduction to hyperparameter tuning and understand why it's important. Next, you'll learn the best methods for hyperparameter tuning for a variety of use cases and specific algorithm types. This book will not only cover the usual grid or random search but also other powerful underdog methods. Individual chapters are also dedicated to the three main groups of hyperparameter tuning methods: exhaustive search, heuristic search, Bayesian optimization, and multi-fidelity optimization. Later, you will learn about top frameworks like Scikit, Hyperopt, Optuna, NNI, and DEAP to implement hyperparameter tuning. Finally, you will cover hyperparameters of popular algorithms and best practices that will help you efficiently tune your hyperparameter. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to take full control over your machine learning models and get the best models for the best results.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Methods
8
Section 2:The Implementation
13
Section 3:Putting Things into Practice

Implementing Grid Search

To implement Grid Search (see Chapter 3, Exploring Exhaustive Search), we can actually write our own code from scratch since it is just a simple nested for loop that tests all of the possible hyperparameter values in the search space. However, by using sklearn’s implementation of Grid Search, GridSearchCV, we can have a cleaner code since we just need to call a single line of code to instantiate the class.

Let’s walk through an example of how we can utilize GridSearchCV to perform Grid Search. Note that, in this example, we are performing hyperparameter tuning on an RF model. We will utilize sklearn’s implementation of RF, RandomForestClassifier. The dataset used in this example is the Banking Dataset – Marketing Targets provided on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/prakharrathi25/banking-dataset-marketing-targets).

Original Data Source

This data was first published in A Data-Driven Approach to Predict the Success...