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Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide

By : Michael Bironneau, Toby Coleman
Book Image

Machine Learning with Go Quick Start Guide

By: Michael Bironneau, Toby Coleman

Overview of this book

Machine learning is an essential part of today's data-driven world and is extensively used across industries, including financial forecasting, robotics, and web technology. This book will teach you how to efficiently develop machine learning applications in Go. The book starts with an introduction to machine learning and its development process, explaining the types of problems that it aims to solve and the solutions it offers. It then covers setting up a frictionless Go development environment, including running Go interactively with Jupyter notebooks. Finally, common data processing techniques are introduced. The book then teaches the reader about supervised and unsupervised learning techniques through worked examples that include the implementation of evaluation metrics. These worked examples make use of the prominent open-source libraries GoML and Gonum. The book also teaches readers how to load a pre-trained model and use it to make predictions. It then moves on to the operational side of running machine learning applications: deployment, Continuous Integration, and helpful advice for effective logging and monitoring. At the end of the book, readers will learn how to set up a machine learning project for success, formulating realistic success criteria and accurately translating business requirements into technical ones.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

How to restore a saved GoML model

Once you have put the hard work into creating a ML model, you may need to shut down your computer. What happens to your model when the computer is restarted? Unless you have persisted it to disk, it will disappear and you will need to start the training process again. Even if you have saved the model hyperparameters in a gophernotes notebook, the model itself will not have been saved. And if the training process is a long one, you may need to wait a long time before your model is ready to use again.

In the following example, we will explain how to restore the model we created in Chapter 3, Supervised Learning, and persist it to the local filesystem in a model.dat file using its PersistToFile method, which is provided by the GoML API. We will restore it using its RestoreFromFile method. We will assume that all the other funcs we created in Chapter...