Decision Tree Learning
The Applied Artificial Intelligence Workshop: Start working with AI today, to build games, design decision trees, and train your own machine learning models: So, Anthony, So, William, Nagy, Zsolt: 9781800205819: Amazon.com: Books
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Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning
In this course, you'll be learning various supervised ML algorithms and prediction tasks applied to different data. You'll learn when to use which model and why, and how to improve the model performances. We will cover models such as linear and logistic regression, KNN, Decision trees and ensembling methods such as Random Forest and Boosting, kernel methods such as SVM. Prior coding or scripting knowledge is required. We will be utilizing Python extensively throughout the course.
Using regression techniques to predict a student's grade for a course
I will be using Keras and TensorFlow to train a deep neural network to predict the grade using 2 hidden layers, mean squared error loss, and an RMSprop optimizer. Let's graph the error and the loss during training and evaluate the model We are getting a 0.69 mean absolute error with this approach. We also need to save the model to deploy it in an API. Since I am using google Colab I can easily save it to google drive. Initialize a random forest with 100 decision trees and train it on the same data.
Regression Trees on Grassmann Manifold for Adapting Reduced-Order Models
Low dimensional and computationally less expensive Reduced-Order Models (ROMs) have been widely used to capture the dominant behaviors of high-dimensional systems. A ROM can be obtained, using the well-known Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), by projecting the full-order model to a subspace spanned by modal basis modes which are learned from experimental, simulated or observational data, i.e., training data. However, the optimal basis can change with the parameter settings. When a ROM, constructed using the POD basis obtained from training data, is applied to new parameter settings, the model often lacks robustness against the change of parameters in design, control, and other real-time operation problems. This paper proposes to use regression trees on Grassmann Manifold to learn the mapping between parameters and POD bases that span the low-dimensional subspaces onto which full-order models are projected. Motivated by the fact that a subspace spanned by a POD basis can be viewed as a point in the Grassmann manifold, we propose to grow a tree by repeatedly splitting the tree node to maximize the Riemannian distance between the two subspaces spanned by the predicted POD bases on the left and right daughter nodes. Five numerical examples are presented to comprehensively demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, and compare the proposed tree-based method to the existing interpolation method for POD basis and the use of global POD basis. The results show that the proposed tree-based method is capable of establishing the mapping between parameters and POD bases, and thus adapt ROMs for new parameters.
Sr. AWS DevOps Developer with AI/ML experience
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Your ultimate AI/ML decision tree
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XGBoost Alternative Base Learners
XGBoost, short for "Extreme Gradient Boosting," is one of the strongest machine learning algorithms for handling tabular data, a well-deserved reputation due to its success in winning numerous Kaggle competitions. XGBoost is an ensemble machine learning algorithm that usually consists of Decision Trees. The Decision Trees that make up XGBoost are individually referred to as gbtree, short for "gradient boosted tree." The first Decision Tree in the XGBoost ensemble is the base learner whose mistakes all subsequent trees learn from. Although Decision Trees are generally preferred as base learners due to their excellent ensemble scores, in some cases, alternative base learners may outperform them.
Analysis, Characterization, Prediction and Attribution of Extreme Atmospheric Events with Machine Learning: a Review
Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho, Pérez-Aracil, Jorge, Ascenso, Guido, Del Ser, Javier, Casillas-Pérez, David, Kadow, Christopher, Fister, Dusan, Barriopedro, David, García-Herrera, Ricardo, Restelli, Marcello, Giuliani, Mateo, Castelletti, Andrea
Atmospheric Extreme Events (EEs) cause severe damages to human societies and ecosystems. The frequency and intensity of EEs and other associated events are increasing in the current climate change and global warming risk. The accurate prediction, characterization, and attribution of atmospheric EEs is therefore a key research field, in which many groups are currently working by applying different methodologies and computational tools. Machine Learning (ML) methods have arisen in the last years as powerful techniques to tackle many of the problems related to atmospheric EEs. This paper reviews the ML algorithms applied to the analysis, characterization, prediction, and attribution of the most important atmospheric EEs. A summary of the most used ML techniques in this area, and a comprehensive critical review of literature related to ML in EEs, are provided. A number of examples is discussed and perspectives and outlooks on the field are drawn.
Decision Trees, Explained
In this post we're going to discuss a commonly used machine learning model called decision tree. Decision trees are preferred for many applications, mainly due to their high explainability, but also due to the fact that they are relatively simple to set up and train, and the short time it takes to perform a prediction with a decision tree. Decision trees are natural to tabular data, and, in fact, they currently seem to outperform neural networks on that type of data (as opposed to images). Unlike neural networks, trees don't require input normalization, since their training is not based on gradient descent and they have very few parameters to optimize on. They can even train on data with missing values, but nowadays this practice is less recommended, and missing values are usually imputed.