Hands-on machine learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow : concepts, tools, and techniques to build intelligent systems / Aurelien Geron.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Machine Learning Landscape -- What Is Machine Learning? -- Why Use Machine Learning? -- Types of Machine Learning Systems -- Supervised/Unsupervised Learning -- Batch and Online Learning -- Instance-Based Versus Model-Based Learning -- Main Challenges of Machine Learning -- Insufficient Quantity of Training Data -- Nonrepresentative Training Data -- Poor-Quality Data -- Irrelevant Features -- Overfitting the Training Data -- Underfitting the Training Data -- Stepping Back -- Testing and Validating -- Exercises -- 2.End-to-End Machine Learning Project -- Working with Real Data -- Look at the Big Picture -- Frame the Problem -- Select a Performance Measure -- Check the Assumptions -- Get the Data -- Create the Workspace -- Download the Data -- Take a Quick Look at the Data Structure -- Create a Test Set -- Discover and Visualize the Data to Gain Insights -- Visualizing Geographical Data -- Looking for Correlations --

Note continued: Experimenting with Attribute Combinations -- Prepare the Data for Machine Learning Algorithms -- Data Cleaning -- Handling Text and Categorical Attributes -- Custom Transformers -- Feature Scaling -- Transformation Pipelines -- Select and Train a Model -- Training and Evaluating on the Training Set -- Better Evaluation Using Cross-Validation -- Fine-Tune Your Model -- Grid Search -- Randomized Search -- Ensemble Methods -- Analyze the Best Models and Their Errors -- Evaluate Your System on the Test Set -- Launch, Monitor, and Maintain Your System -- Try It Out! -- Exercises -- 3.Classification -- MNIST -- Training a Binary Classifier -- Performance Measures -- Measuring Accuracy Using Cross-Validation -- Confusion Matrix -- Precision and Recall -- Precision/Recall Tradeoff -- The ROC Curve -- Multiclass Classification -- Error Analysis -- Multilabel Classification -- Multioutput Classification -- Exercises -- 4.Training Models -- Linear Regression --

Note continued: The Normal Equation -- Computational Complexity -- Gradient Descent -- Batch Gradient Descent -- Stochastic Gradient Descent -- Mini-batch Gradient Descent -- Polynomial Regression -- Learning Curves -- Regularized Linear Models -- Ridge Regression -- Lasso Regression -- Elastic Net -- Early Stopping -- Logistic Regression -- Estimating Probabilities -- Training and Cost Function -- Decision Boundaries -- Softmax Regression -- Exercises -- 5.Support Vector Machines -- Linear SVM Classification -- Soft Margin Classification -- Nonlinear SVM Classification -- Polynomial Kernel -- Adding Similarity Features -- Gaussian RBF Kernel -- Computational Complexity -- SVM Regression -- Under the Hood -- Decision Function and Predictions -- Training Objective -- Quadratic Programming -- The Dual Problem -- Kernelized SVM -- Online SVMs -- Exercises -- 6.Decision Trees -- Training and Visualizing a Decision Tree -- Making Predictions --

Note continued: Estimating Class Probabilities -- The CART Training Algorithm -- Computational Complexity -- Gini Impurity or Entropy? -- Regularization Hyperparameters -- Regression -- Instability -- Exercises -- 7.Ensemble Learning and Random Forests -- Voting Classifiers -- Bagging and Pasting -- Bagging and Pasting in Scikit-Learn -- Out-of-Bag Evaluation -- Random Patches and Random Subspaces -- Random Forests -- Extra-Trees -- Feature Importance -- Boosting -- AdaBoost -- Gradient Boosting -- Stacking -- Exercises -- 8.Dimensionality Reduction -- The Curse of Dimensionality -- Main Approaches for Dimensionality Reduction -- Projection -- Manifold Learning -- PCA -- Preserving the Variance -- Principal Components -- Projecting Down to d Dimensions -- Using Scikit-Learn -- Explained Variance Ratio -- Choosing the Right Number of Dimensions -- PCA for Compression -- Incremental PCA -- Randomized PCA -- Kernel PCA -- Selecting a Kernel and Tuning Hyperparameters --

Note continued: LLE -- Other Dimensionality Reduction Techniques -- Exercises -- 9.Up and Running with TensorFlow -- Installation -- Creating Your First Graph and Running It in a Session -- Managing Graphs -- Lifecycle of a Node Value -- Linear Regression with TensorFlow -- Implementing Gradient Descent -- Manually Computing the Gradients -- Using autodiff -- Using an Optimizer -- Feeding Data to the Training Algorithm -- Saving and Restoring Models -- Visualizing the Graph and Training Curves Using TensorBoard -- Name Scopes -- Modularity -- Sharing Variables -- Exercises -- 10.Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks -- From Biological to Artificial Neurons -- Biological Neurons -- Logical Computations with Neurons -- The Perceptron -- Multi-Layer Perceptron and Backpropagation -- Training an MLP with TensorFlow's High-Level API -- Training a DNN Using Plain TensorFlow -- Construction Phase -- Execution Phase -- Using the Neural Network --

Note continued: Fine-Tuning Neural Network Hyperparameters -- Number of Hidden Layers -- Number of Neurons per Hidden Layer -- Activation Functions -- Exercises -- 11.Training Deep Neural Nets -- Vanishing/Exploding Gradients Problems -- Xavier and He Initialization -- Nonsaturating Activation Functions -- Batch Normalization -- Gradient Clipping -- Reusing Pretrained Layers -- Reusing a TensorFlow Model -- Reusing Models from Other Frameworks -- Freezing the Lower Layers -- Caching the Frozen Layers -- Tweaking, Dropping, or Replacing the Upper Layers -- Model Zoos -- Unsupervised Pretraining -- Pretraining on an Auxiliary Task -- Faster Optimizers -- Momentum optimization -- Nesterov Accelerated Gradient -- AdaGrad -- RMSProp -- Adam Optimization -- Learning Rate Scheduling -- Avoiding Overfitting Through Regularization -- Early Stopping -- e1 and e2 Regularization -- Dropout -- Max-Norm Regularization -- Data Augmentation -- Practical Guidelines -- Exercises --

Note continued: 12.Distributing TensorFlow Across Devices and Servers -- Multiple Devices on a Single Machine -- Installation -- Managing the GPU RAM -- Placing Operations on Devices -- Parallel Execution -- Control Dependencies -- Multiple Devices Across Multiple Servers -- Opening a Session -- The Master and Worker Services -- Pinning Operations Across Tasks -- Sharding Variables Across Multiple Parameter Servers -- Sharing State Across Sessions Using Resource Containers -- Asynchronous Communication Using TensorFlow Queues -- Loading Data Directly from the Graph -- Parallelizing Neural Networks on a TensorFlow Cluster -- One Neural Network per Device -- In-Graph Versus Between-Graph Replication -- Model Parallelism -- Data Parallelism -- Exercises -- 13.Convolutional Neural Networks -- The Architecture of the Visual Cortex -- Convolutional Layer -- Filters -- Stacking Multiple Feature Maps -- TensorFlow Implementation -- Memory Requirements -- Pooling Layer --

Note continued: CNN Architectures -- LeNet-5 -- AlexNet -- GoogLeNet -- ResNet -- Exercises -- 14.Recurrent Neural Networks -- Recurrent Neurons -- Memory Cells -- Input and Output Sequences -- Basic RNNs in TensorFlow -- Static Unrolling Through Time -- Dynamic Unrolling Through Time -- Handling Variable Length Input Sequences -- Handling Variable-Length Output Sequences -- Training RNNs -- Training a Sequence Classifier -- Training to Predict Time Series -- Creative RNN -- Deep RNNs -- Distributing a Deep RNN Across Multiple GPUs -- Applying Dropout -- The Difficulty of Training over Many Time Steps -- LSTM Cell -- Peephole Connections -- GRU Cell -- Natural Language Processing -- Word Embeddings -- An Encoder-Decoder Network for Machine Translation -- Exercises -- 15.Autoencoders -- Efficient Data Representations -- Performing PCA with an Undercomplete Linear Autoencoder -- Stacked Autoencoders -- TensorFlow Implementation -- Tying Weights --

Note continued: Training One Autoencoder at a Time -- Visualizing the Reconstructions -- Visualizing Features -- Unsupervised Pretraining Using Stacked Autoencoders -- Denoising Autoencoders -- TensorFlow Implementation -- Sparse Autoencoders -- TensorFlow Implementation -- Variational Autoencoders -- Generating Digits -- Other Autoencoders -- Exercises -- 16.Reinforcement Learning -- Learning to Optimize Rewards -- Policy Search -- Introduction to OpenAl Gym -- Neural Network Policies -- Evaluating Actions: The Credit Assignment Problem -- Policy Gradients -- Markov Decision Processes -- Temporal Difference Learning and Q-Learning -- Exploration Policies -- Approximate Q-Learning -- Learning to Play Ms. Pac-Man Using Deep Q-Learning -- Exercises -- Thank You!.

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