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Machine Learning Classification Bootcamp in Python

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Online Courses Udemy Build 10 Practical Projects and Advance Your Skills in Machine Learning Using Python and Scikit Learn Created by Dr. Ryan Ahmed, Ph.D., MBA, Kirill Eremenko, Hadelin de Ponteves, Mitchell Bouchard, SuperDataScience Team English [Auto-generated], Indonesian [Auto-generated] Students also bought [2020] Deploying Machine Learning Models - A Complete Guide Machine Learning applied to manufacturing processing Scala and Spark for Big Data and Machine Learning Machine Learning A-Z: Become Kaggle Master Machine Learning and AI: Support Vector Machines in Python Preview this course GET COUPON CODE Description Are you ready to master Machine Learning techniques and Kick-off your career as a Data Scientist?! You came to the right place! Machine Learning skill is one of the top skills to acquire in 2019 with an average salary of over $114,000 in the United States according to PayScale! The total number of ML jobs over the past two years has grown around 600 percent and expected to grow even more by 2020. This course provides students with knowledge, hands-on experience of state-of-the-art machine learning classification techniques such as Logistic Regression Decision Trees Random Forest Naïve Bayes Support Vector Machines (SVM) In this course, we are going to provide students with knowledge of key aspects of state-of-the-art classification techniques.


Customer Segmentation with Machine Learning

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Imagine that you are treating the grocery shop owner that you shop every day, as you treat your significant other. That can be fun at the beginning, however may cause disastrous situations too. Likewise, it can be unfavourable for a company to manage its relationships with every customer similarly. Customer segmentation enables a company to customize its relationships with the customers, as we do in our daily lives. When you perform customer segmentation, you find similar characteristics in each customer's behaviour and needs.


Chapter 1: Introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning

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Throughout this book, we will use the term machine learning to refer to both traditional machine learning and deep learning. Supervised learning is focused on predictive modeling tasks, that is, modeling the relationship between features extracted from the data and one or multiple target variables or labels. While supervised learning is based on labeled data, unsupervised learning aims to model the hidden structure in data without label information. Finally, reinforcement learning is concerned with developing reward systems to model complex decision processes and learning series of actions. Supervised learning is concerned with predicting a target value given input observations.


A critical analysis of metrics used for measuring progress in artificial intelligence

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Comparing model performances on benchmark datasets is an integral part of measuring and driving progress in artificial intelligence. A model's performance on a benchmark dataset is commonly assessed based on a single or a small set of performance metrics. While this enables quick comparisons, it may also entail the risk of inadequately reflecting model performance if the metric does not sufficiently cover all performance characteristics. Currently, it is unknown to what extent this might impact current benchmarking efforts. To address this question, we analysed the current landscape of performance metrics based on data covering 3867 machine learning model performance results from the web-based open platform 'Papers with Code'. Our results suggest that the large majority of metrics currently used to evaluate classification AI benchmark tasks have properties that may result in an inadequate reflection of a classifiers' performance, especially when used with imbalanced datasets. While alternative metrics that address problematic properties have been proposed, they are currently rarely applied as performance metrics in benchmarking tasks. Finally, we noticed that the reporting of metrics was partly inconsistent and partly unspecific, which may lead to ambiguities when comparing model performances.


RelSen: An Optimization-based Framework for Simultaneously Sensor Reliability Monitoring and Data Cleaning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology have led to a surge on the popularity of sensing applications. As a result, people increasingly rely on information obtained from sensors to make decisions in their daily life. Unfortunately, in most sensing applications, sensors are known to be error-prone and their measurements can become misleading at any unexpected time. Therefore, in order to enhance the reliability of sensing applications, apart from the physical phenomena/processes of interest, we believe it is also highly important to monitor the reliability of sensors and clean the sensor data before analysis on them being conducted. Existing studies often regard sensor reliability monitoring and sensor data cleaning as separate problems. In this work, we propose RelSen, a novel optimization-based framework to address the two problems simultaneously via utilizing the mutual dependence between them. Furthermore, RelSen is not application-specific as its implementation assumes a minimal prior knowledge of the process dynamics under monitoring. This significantly improves its generality and applicability in practice. In our experiments, we apply RelSen on an outdoor air pollution monitoring system and a condition monitoring system for a cement rotary kiln. Experimental results show that our framework can timely identify unreliable sensors and remove sensor measurement errors caused by three types of most commonly observed sensor faults.


Curvature-Dependant Global Convergence Rates for Optimization on Manifolds of Bounded Geometry

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We give curvature-dependant convergence rates for the optimization of weakly convex functions defined on a manifold of 1-bounded geometry via Riemannian gradient descent and via the dynamic trivialization algorithm. In order to do this, we give a tighter bound on the norm of the Hessian of the Riemannian exponential than the previously known. We compute these bounds explicitly for some manifolds commonly used in the optimization literature such as the special orthogonal group and the real Grassmannian. Along the way, we present self-contained proofs of fully general bounds on the norm of the differential of the exponential map and certain cosine inequalities on manifolds, which are commonly used in optimization on manifolds.


Visualization and machine learning for forecasting of COVID-19 in Senegal

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this article, we give visualization and different machine learning technics for two weeks and 40 days ahead forecast based on public data. On July 15, 2020, Senegal reopened its airspace doors, while the number of confirmed cases is still increasing. The population no longer respects hygiene measures, social distancing as at the beginning of the contamination. Negligence or tiredness to always wear the masks? We make forecasting on the inflection point and possible ending time.


Benign Overfitting and Noisy Features

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Modern machine learning often operates in the regime where the number of parameters is much higher than the number of data points, with zero training loss and yet good generalization, thereby contradicting the classical bias-variance trade-off. This \textit{benign overfitting} phenomenon has recently been characterized using so called \textit{double descent} curves where the risk undergoes another descent (in addition to the classical U-shaped learning curve when the number of parameters is small) as we increase the number of parameters beyond a certain threshold. In this paper, we examine the conditions under which \textit{Benign Overfitting} occurs in the random feature (RF) models, i.e. in a two-layer neural network with fixed first layer weights. We adopt a new view of random feature and show that \textit{benign overfitting} arises due to the noise which resides in such features (the noise may already be present in the data and propagate to the features or it may be added by the user to the features directly) and plays an important implicit regularization role in the phenomenon.


Iterative Pre-Conditioning for Expediting the Gradient-Descent Method: The Distributed Linear Least-Squares Problem

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This paper considers the multi-agent linear least-squares problem in a server-agent network. In this problem, the system comprises multiple agents, each having a set of local data points, that are connected to a server. The goal for the agents is to compute a linear mathematical model that optimally fits the collective data points held by all the agents, without sharing their individual local data points. This goal can be achieved, in principle, using the server-agent variant of the traditional iterative gradient-descent method. The gradient-descent method converges linearly to a solution, and its rate of convergence is lower bounded by the conditioning of the agents' collective data points. If the data points are ill-conditioned, the gradient-descent method may require a large number of iterations to converge. We propose an iterative pre-conditioning technique that mitigates the deleterious effect of the conditioning of data points on the rate of convergence of the gradient-descent method. We rigorously show that the resulting pre-conditioned gradient-descent method, with the proposed iterative pre-conditioning, achieves superlinear convergence when the least-squares problem has a unique solution. In general, the convergence is linear with improved rate of convergence in comparison to the traditional gradient-descent method and the state-of-the-art accelerated gradient-descent methods. We further illustrate the improved rate of convergence of our proposed algorithm through experiments on different real-world least-squares problems in both noise-free and noisy computation environment.


Learning Insulin-Glucose Dynamics in the Wild

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We develop a new model of insulin-glucose dynamics for forecasting blood glucose in type 1 diabetics. We augment an existing biomedical model by introducing time-varying dynamics driven by a machine learning sequence model. Our model maintains a physiologically plausible inductive bias and clinically interpretable parameters -- e.g., insulin sensitivity -- while inheriting the flexibility of modern pattern recognition algorithms. Critical to modeling success are the flexible, but structured representations of subject variability with a sequence model. In contrast, less constrained models like the LSTM fail to provide reliable or physiologically plausible forecasts. We conduct an extensive empirical study. We show that allowing biomedical model dynamics to vary in time improves forecasting at long time horizons, up to six hours, and produces forecasts consistent with the physiological effects of insulin and carbohydrates.