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Machine Learning Algorithms

Machine Learning Algorithms

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Machine Learning Algorithms

Machine Learning Algorithms

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Machine learning has gained tremendous popularity for its powerful and fast predictions with large datasets. However, the true forces behind its powerful output are the complex algorithms involving substantial statistical analysis that churn large datasets and generate substantial insight. This second edition of Machine Learning Algorithms walks you through prominent development outcomes that have taken place relating to machine learning algorithms, which constitute major contributions to the machine learning process and help you to strengthen and master statistical interpretation across the areas of supervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning. Once the core concepts of an algorithm have been covered, you’ll explore real-world examples based on the most diffused libraries, such as scikit-learn, NLTK, TensorFlow, and Keras. You will discover new topics such as principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), Bayesian regression, discriminant analysis, advanced clustering, and gaussian mixture. By the end of this book, you will have studied machine learning algorithms and be able to put them into production to make your machine learning applications more innovative.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hierarchical strategies


Hierarchical Clustering is based on the general concept of finding a hierarchy of partial clusters, built using either a bottom-up or a top-down approach. More formally, they are split into two categories:

  • Agglomerative Clustering: The process starts from the bottom (each initial cluster is made up of a single element) and proceeds by merging the clusters until a stop criterion is reached. In general, the target has a sufficiently small number of clusters at the end of the process.
  • Divisive Clustering: In this case, the initial state is a single cluster with all samples, and the process proceeds by splitting the intermediate cluster until all the elements are separated. At this point, the process continues with an aggregation criterion based on dissimilarity between elements. A famous approach is called Divisive Analysis (DIANA); however, that algorithm is beyond the scope of this book.

scikit-learn implements only Agglomerative Clustering. However, this is not a real...

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