This document provides an overview of supervised machine learning algorithms for classification, including logistic regression, k-nearest neighbors (KNN), support vector machines (SVM), and decision trees. It discusses key concepts like evaluation metrics, performance measures, and use cases. For logistic regression, it covers the mathematics behind maximum likelihood estimation and gradient descent. For KNN, it explains the algorithm and discusses distance metrics and a numerical example. For SVM, it outlines the concept of finding the optimal hyperplane that maximizes the margin between classes.
Karmarkar's Algorithm For Linear Programming ProblemAjay Dhamija
The document discusses Karmarkar's algorithm, an interior point method for solving linear programming problems. It introduces key concepts of Karmarkar's algorithm such as projecting a vector onto the feasible region, Karmarkar's centering transformation, and Karmarkar's potential function. The original algorithm assumes the linear program is in canonical form and generates a sequence of interior points with decreasing objective function values using a projective transformation to move points to the center of the feasible region.
The document discusses the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm. It begins by introducing KNN as a non-parametric classification algorithm that predicts the target class of a data point based on the classes of its nearest neighbors. It then provides an example of how KNN could be used by a lending company to predict customers' credit scores based on their background details. The document concludes by explaining key aspects of KNN, including how to calculate distances, choose the K value, and apply the condensed nearest neighbor rule to reduce data.
The document discusses decision tree algorithms. It begins with an introduction and example, then covers the principles of entropy and information gain used to build decision trees. It provides explanations of key concepts like entropy, information gain, and how decision trees are constructed and evaluated. Examples are given to illustrate these concepts. The document concludes with strengths and weaknesses of decision tree algorithms.
This document discusses logistic regression for classification problems. Logistic regression models the probability of an output belonging to a particular class using a logistic function. The model parameters are estimated by minimizing a cost function using gradient descent or other advanced optimization algorithms. Logistic regression can be extended to multi-class classification problems using a one-vs-all approach that trains a separate binary classifier for each class.
Get to know in detail the termonologies of Random Forest with their types of algorithms used in the workflow along with their advantages and disadvantages of their predecessors.
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A small informative presentation on machine learning.
It contains the following topics:
Introduction to ML
Types of Learning
Regression
Classification
Classification vs Regression
Clustering
Decision Tree Learning
Random Forest
True vs False
Positive vs Negative
Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Application of Machine Learning
Future of Machine Learning
An adaptative nature inspired algorithm explained, concretely implemented, and applied to routing protocols in wired and wireless networks. The document discusses how ant colony optimization algorithms can be applied to routing by simulating how ants leave pheromone trails to find the shortest path between their nest and food sources. It provides examples of how ant colony algorithms have been implemented in routing protocols like ABC for wired networks, AntNet for MANETs, and ARA and AntHocNet for wireless ad hoc networks. Evaluation results show these ant-inspired routing protocols can find paths more efficiently than traditional routing protocols like OSPF and perform better than protocols like AODV for packet delivery in mobile wireless networks.
Karmarkar's Algorithm For Linear Programming ProblemAjay Dhamija
The document discusses Karmarkar's algorithm, an interior point method for solving linear programming problems. It introduces key concepts of Karmarkar's algorithm such as projecting a vector onto the feasible region, Karmarkar's centering transformation, and Karmarkar's potential function. The original algorithm assumes the linear program is in canonical form and generates a sequence of interior points with decreasing objective function values using a projective transformation to move points to the center of the feasible region.
The document discusses the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm. It begins by introducing KNN as a non-parametric classification algorithm that predicts the target class of a data point based on the classes of its nearest neighbors. It then provides an example of how KNN could be used by a lending company to predict customers' credit scores based on their background details. The document concludes by explaining key aspects of KNN, including how to calculate distances, choose the K value, and apply the condensed nearest neighbor rule to reduce data.
The document discusses decision tree algorithms. It begins with an introduction and example, then covers the principles of entropy and information gain used to build decision trees. It provides explanations of key concepts like entropy, information gain, and how decision trees are constructed and evaluated. Examples are given to illustrate these concepts. The document concludes with strengths and weaknesses of decision tree algorithms.
This document discusses logistic regression for classification problems. Logistic regression models the probability of an output belonging to a particular class using a logistic function. The model parameters are estimated by minimizing a cost function using gradient descent or other advanced optimization algorithms. Logistic regression can be extended to multi-class classification problems using a one-vs-all approach that trains a separate binary classifier for each class.
Get to know in detail the termonologies of Random Forest with their types of algorithms used in the workflow along with their advantages and disadvantages of their predecessors.
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A small informative presentation on machine learning.
It contains the following topics:
Introduction to ML
Types of Learning
Regression
Classification
Classification vs Regression
Clustering
Decision Tree Learning
Random Forest
True vs False
Positive vs Negative
Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Application of Machine Learning
Future of Machine Learning
An adaptative nature inspired algorithm explained, concretely implemented, and applied to routing protocols in wired and wireless networks. The document discusses how ant colony optimization algorithms can be applied to routing by simulating how ants leave pheromone trails to find the shortest path between their nest and food sources. It provides examples of how ant colony algorithms have been implemented in routing protocols like ABC for wired networks, AntNet for MANETs, and ARA and AntHocNet for wireless ad hoc networks. Evaluation results show these ant-inspired routing protocols can find paths more efficiently than traditional routing protocols like OSPF and perform better than protocols like AODV for packet delivery in mobile wireless networks.
Decision Trees for Classification: A Machine Learning AlgorithmPalin analytics
Decision Trees in Machine Learning - Decision tree method is a commonly used data mining method for establishing classification systems based on several covariates or for developing prediction algorithms for a target variable.
Regularization helps address the problem of overfitting in machine learning models. It works by adding parameters to the cost function that penalize high values for the model's coefficients, which encourages simpler models that generalize better to new data. Regularization can be applied to both linear and logistic regression by modifying the cost function and using gradient descent or the normal equation to find the optimal parameters that minimize the new regularized cost function. The regularization parameter controls the tradeoff between model complexity and fitting the training data.
Module 4: Model Selection and EvaluationSara Hooker
Delta Analytics is a 501(c)3 non-profit in the Bay Area. We believe that data is powerful, and that anybody should be able to harness it for change. Our teaching fellows partner with schools and organizations worldwide to work with students excited about the power of data to do good.
Welcome to the course! These modules will teach you the fundamental building blocks and the theory necessary to be a responsible machine learning practitioner in your own community. Each module focuses on accessible examples designed to teach you about good practices and the powerful (yet surprisingly simple) algorithms we use to model data.
To learn more about our mission or provide feedback, take a look at www.deltanalytics.org.
Instance-based learning stores all training instances and classifies new instances based on their similarity to stored examples as determined by a distance metric, typically Euclidean distance. It is a non-parametric approach where the hypothesis complexity grows with the amount of data. K-nearest neighbors specifically finds the K most similar training examples to a new instance and assigns the most common class among those K neighbors. Key aspects are choosing the value of K and the distance metric to evaluate similarity between instances.
The document discusses ant colony optimization, a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm. It describes how real ants communicate indirectly via pheromone trails to find the shortest path between their nest and food sources. The algorithm mimics this behavior to solve complex optimization problems like the traveling salesman problem, with artificial "ants" probabilistically building solutions through pheromone-guided movements.
This document provides an overview of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and related concepts in decision theory and reinforcement learning. It defines MDPs and their components, describes algorithms for solving MDPs like value iteration and policy iteration, and discusses extensions to partially observable MDPs. It also briefly mentions dynamic Bayesian networks, the dopaminergic system, and its role in reinforcement learning and decision making.
- The document describes a project to predict customer churn for a telecom company using classification algorithms. It analyzes a dataset of 3333 customers to identify variables that contribute to churn and builds models using KNN and C4.5.
- The C4.5 model achieved higher accuracy (94.9%) than KNN (87.1%) on the test data. Key variables for predicting churn were found to be day minutes, customer service calls, and international plan.
- The model can help the telecom company prevent churn by focusing retention efforts on at-risk customers identified through these important variables.
The document discusses multi-armed bandits and their applications. It provides an overview of multi-armed bandits, describing the exploration-exploitation dilemma. It then discusses the optimal UCB algorithm and how it balances exploration and exploitation. Finally, it summarizes two applications of multi-armed bandits: using them for learning to rank in recommendation systems and addressing the cold-start problem in recommender systems.
This presentation provides an introduction to the Ant Colony Optimization topic, it shows the basic idea of ACO, advantages, limitations and the related applications.
1. The Naive Bayes classifier is a simple probabilistic classifier based on Bayes' theorem that assumes independence between features.
2. It has various applications including email spam detection, language detection, and document categorization.
3. The Naive Bayes approach involves computing the class prior probabilities, feature likelihoods, and applying Bayes' theorem to calculate the posterior probabilities to classify new instances. Laplace smoothing is often used to handle cases with insufficient training data.
This document provides an introduction to greedy algorithms. It defines greedy algorithms as algorithms that make locally optimal choices at each step in the hope of finding a global optimum. The document then provides examples of problems that can be solved using greedy algorithms, including counting money, scheduling jobs, finding minimum spanning trees, and the traveling salesman problem. It also provides pseudocode for a general greedy algorithm and discusses some properties of greedy algorithms.
- Ant colony optimization (ACO) is an algorithm inspired by the behavior of real ant colonies. It is used to find solutions to discrete optimization problems.
- The algorithm operates by simulating ants walking on the problem graph, depositing and following virtual pheromone trails, with the goal of eventually finding the shortest route. Ants have a higher probability of following paths marked by strong pheromone concentrations.
- Over time, the pheromone trails reinforce, guiding more ants toward the best solutions. Pheromone also gradually evaporates, preventing stagnation on locally optimal solutions. After many iterations, the shortest path emerges as the strongest trail.
The document discusses various unsupervised learning techniques including clustering algorithms like k-means, k-medoids, hierarchical clustering and density-based clustering. It explains how k-means clustering works by selecting initial random centroids and iteratively reassigning data points to the closest centroid. The elbow method is described as a way to determine the optimal number of clusters k. The document also discusses how k-medoids clustering is more robust to outliers than k-means because it uses actual data points as cluster representatives rather than centroids.
The document discusses gradient descent methods for unconstrained convex optimization problems. It introduces gradient descent as an iterative method to find the minimum of a differentiable function by taking steps proportional to the negative gradient. It describes the basic gradient descent update rule and discusses convergence conditions such as Lipschitz continuity, strong convexity, and condition number. It also covers techniques like exact line search, backtracking line search, coordinate descent, and steepest descent methods.
The document describes the Crow Search Algorithm, a nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm. It mimics the social behavior of crows, including hiding and stealing foods. The algorithm initializes a population of solutions representing crows. It updates each crow's position based on the position of a randomly selected crow, and each crow's memory based on fitness. This balances exploration and exploitation to optimize problems.
Winning Kaggle 101: Introduction to StackingTed Xiao
This document provides an introduction to stacking, an ensemble machine learning method. Stacking involves training a "metalearner" to optimally combine the predictions from multiple "base learners". The stacking algorithm was developed in the 1990s and improved upon with techniques like cross-validation and the "Super Learner" which combines models in a way that is provably asymptotically optimal. H2O implements an efficient stacking method called H2O Ensemble which allows for easily finding the best combination of algorithms like GBM, DNNs, and more to improve predictions.
KNN Algorithm using Python | How KNN Algorithm works | Python Data Science Tr...Edureka!
** Python for Data Science: https://www.edureka.co/python **
This Edureka tutorial on KNN Algorithm will help you to build your base by covering the theoretical, mathematical and implementation part of the KNN algorithm in Python. Topics covered under this tutorial includes:
1. What is KNN Algorithm?
2. Industrial Use case of KNN Algorithm
3. How things are predicted using KNN Algorithm
4. How to choose the value of K?
5. KNN Algorithm Using Python
6. Implementation of KNN Algorithm from scratch
Check out our playlist: http://bit.ly/2taym8X
K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k number of clusters based on their similarity. It works by randomly selecting k data points as initial cluster centroids and then assigning each remaining point to the closest centroid. It then recalculates the centroids and reassigns points in an iterative process until centroids stabilize. While efficient, k-means clustering has weaknesses in that it requires specifying k, can get stuck in local optima, and is not suitable for non-convex shaped clusters or noisy data.
Random Forest Algorithm - Random Forest Explained | Random Forest In Machine ...Simplilearn
This Random Forest Algorithm Presentation will explain how Random Forest algorithm works in Machine Learning. By the end of this video, you will be able to understand what is Machine Learning, what is classification problem, applications of Random Forest, why we need Random Forest, how it works with simple examples and how to implement Random Forest algorithm in Python.
Below are the topics covered in this Machine Learning Presentation:
1. What is Machine Learning?
2. Applications of Random Forest
3. What is Classification?
4. Why Random Forest?
5. Random Forest and Decision Tree
6. Comparing Random Forest and Regression
7. Use case - Iris Flower Analysis
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About Simplilearn Machine Learning course:
A form of artificial intelligence, Machine Learning is revolutionizing the world of computing as well as all people’s digital interactions. Machine Learning powers such innovative automated technologies as recommendation engines, facial recognition, fraud protection and even self-driving cars.This Machine Learning course prepares engineers, data scientists and other professionals with knowledge and hands-on skills required for certification and job competency in Machine Learning.
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Why learn Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is taking over the world- and with that, there is a growing need among companies for professionals to know the ins and outs of Machine Learning
The Machine Learning market size is expected to grow from USD 1.03 Billion in 2016 to USD 8.81 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.1% during the forecast period.
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What skills will you learn from this Machine Learning course?
By the end of this Machine Learning course, you will be able to:
1. Master the concepts of supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning concepts and modeling.
2. Gain practical mastery over principles, algorithms, and applications of Machine Learning through a hands-on approach which includes working on 28 projects and one capstone project.
3. Acquire thorough knowledge of the mathematical and heuristic aspects of Machine Learning.
4. Understand the concepts and operation of support vector machines, kernel SVM, naive Bayes, decision tree classifier, random forest classifier, logistic regression, K-nearest neighbors, K-means clustering and more.
5. Be able to model a wide variety of robust Machine Learning algorithms including deep learning, clustering, and recommendation systems
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Application of Machine Learning in AgricultureAman Vasisht
With the growing trend of machine learning, it is needless to say how machine learning can help reap benefits in agriculture. It will be boon for the farmer welfare.
This presentation discusses about following topics:
Types of Problems Solved Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Problem categories
Classification Algorithms
Naive Bayes
Example: A person playing golf
Decision Tree
Random Forest
Logistic Regression
Support Vector Machine
Support Vector Machine
K Nearest Neighbors
Decision Trees for Classification: A Machine Learning AlgorithmPalin analytics
Decision Trees in Machine Learning - Decision tree method is a commonly used data mining method for establishing classification systems based on several covariates or for developing prediction algorithms for a target variable.
Regularization helps address the problem of overfitting in machine learning models. It works by adding parameters to the cost function that penalize high values for the model's coefficients, which encourages simpler models that generalize better to new data. Regularization can be applied to both linear and logistic regression by modifying the cost function and using gradient descent or the normal equation to find the optimal parameters that minimize the new regularized cost function. The regularization parameter controls the tradeoff between model complexity and fitting the training data.
Module 4: Model Selection and EvaluationSara Hooker
Delta Analytics is a 501(c)3 non-profit in the Bay Area. We believe that data is powerful, and that anybody should be able to harness it for change. Our teaching fellows partner with schools and organizations worldwide to work with students excited about the power of data to do good.
Welcome to the course! These modules will teach you the fundamental building blocks and the theory necessary to be a responsible machine learning practitioner in your own community. Each module focuses on accessible examples designed to teach you about good practices and the powerful (yet surprisingly simple) algorithms we use to model data.
To learn more about our mission or provide feedback, take a look at www.deltanalytics.org.
Instance-based learning stores all training instances and classifies new instances based on their similarity to stored examples as determined by a distance metric, typically Euclidean distance. It is a non-parametric approach where the hypothesis complexity grows with the amount of data. K-nearest neighbors specifically finds the K most similar training examples to a new instance and assigns the most common class among those K neighbors. Key aspects are choosing the value of K and the distance metric to evaluate similarity between instances.
The document discusses ant colony optimization, a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm. It describes how real ants communicate indirectly via pheromone trails to find the shortest path between their nest and food sources. The algorithm mimics this behavior to solve complex optimization problems like the traveling salesman problem, with artificial "ants" probabilistically building solutions through pheromone-guided movements.
This document provides an overview of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and related concepts in decision theory and reinforcement learning. It defines MDPs and their components, describes algorithms for solving MDPs like value iteration and policy iteration, and discusses extensions to partially observable MDPs. It also briefly mentions dynamic Bayesian networks, the dopaminergic system, and its role in reinforcement learning and decision making.
- The document describes a project to predict customer churn for a telecom company using classification algorithms. It analyzes a dataset of 3333 customers to identify variables that contribute to churn and builds models using KNN and C4.5.
- The C4.5 model achieved higher accuracy (94.9%) than KNN (87.1%) on the test data. Key variables for predicting churn were found to be day minutes, customer service calls, and international plan.
- The model can help the telecom company prevent churn by focusing retention efforts on at-risk customers identified through these important variables.
The document discusses multi-armed bandits and their applications. It provides an overview of multi-armed bandits, describing the exploration-exploitation dilemma. It then discusses the optimal UCB algorithm and how it balances exploration and exploitation. Finally, it summarizes two applications of multi-armed bandits: using them for learning to rank in recommendation systems and addressing the cold-start problem in recommender systems.
This presentation provides an introduction to the Ant Colony Optimization topic, it shows the basic idea of ACO, advantages, limitations and the related applications.
1. The Naive Bayes classifier is a simple probabilistic classifier based on Bayes' theorem that assumes independence between features.
2. It has various applications including email spam detection, language detection, and document categorization.
3. The Naive Bayes approach involves computing the class prior probabilities, feature likelihoods, and applying Bayes' theorem to calculate the posterior probabilities to classify new instances. Laplace smoothing is often used to handle cases with insufficient training data.
This document provides an introduction to greedy algorithms. It defines greedy algorithms as algorithms that make locally optimal choices at each step in the hope of finding a global optimum. The document then provides examples of problems that can be solved using greedy algorithms, including counting money, scheduling jobs, finding minimum spanning trees, and the traveling salesman problem. It also provides pseudocode for a general greedy algorithm and discusses some properties of greedy algorithms.
- Ant colony optimization (ACO) is an algorithm inspired by the behavior of real ant colonies. It is used to find solutions to discrete optimization problems.
- The algorithm operates by simulating ants walking on the problem graph, depositing and following virtual pheromone trails, with the goal of eventually finding the shortest route. Ants have a higher probability of following paths marked by strong pheromone concentrations.
- Over time, the pheromone trails reinforce, guiding more ants toward the best solutions. Pheromone also gradually evaporates, preventing stagnation on locally optimal solutions. After many iterations, the shortest path emerges as the strongest trail.
The document discusses various unsupervised learning techniques including clustering algorithms like k-means, k-medoids, hierarchical clustering and density-based clustering. It explains how k-means clustering works by selecting initial random centroids and iteratively reassigning data points to the closest centroid. The elbow method is described as a way to determine the optimal number of clusters k. The document also discusses how k-medoids clustering is more robust to outliers than k-means because it uses actual data points as cluster representatives rather than centroids.
The document discusses gradient descent methods for unconstrained convex optimization problems. It introduces gradient descent as an iterative method to find the minimum of a differentiable function by taking steps proportional to the negative gradient. It describes the basic gradient descent update rule and discusses convergence conditions such as Lipschitz continuity, strong convexity, and condition number. It also covers techniques like exact line search, backtracking line search, coordinate descent, and steepest descent methods.
The document describes the Crow Search Algorithm, a nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm. It mimics the social behavior of crows, including hiding and stealing foods. The algorithm initializes a population of solutions representing crows. It updates each crow's position based on the position of a randomly selected crow, and each crow's memory based on fitness. This balances exploration and exploitation to optimize problems.
Winning Kaggle 101: Introduction to StackingTed Xiao
This document provides an introduction to stacking, an ensemble machine learning method. Stacking involves training a "metalearner" to optimally combine the predictions from multiple "base learners". The stacking algorithm was developed in the 1990s and improved upon with techniques like cross-validation and the "Super Learner" which combines models in a way that is provably asymptotically optimal. H2O implements an efficient stacking method called H2O Ensemble which allows for easily finding the best combination of algorithms like GBM, DNNs, and more to improve predictions.
KNN Algorithm using Python | How KNN Algorithm works | Python Data Science Tr...Edureka!
** Python for Data Science: https://www.edureka.co/python **
This Edureka tutorial on KNN Algorithm will help you to build your base by covering the theoretical, mathematical and implementation part of the KNN algorithm in Python. Topics covered under this tutorial includes:
1. What is KNN Algorithm?
2. Industrial Use case of KNN Algorithm
3. How things are predicted using KNN Algorithm
4. How to choose the value of K?
5. KNN Algorithm Using Python
6. Implementation of KNN Algorithm from scratch
Check out our playlist: http://bit.ly/2taym8X
K-means clustering is an algorithm that groups data points into k number of clusters based on their similarity. It works by randomly selecting k data points as initial cluster centroids and then assigning each remaining point to the closest centroid. It then recalculates the centroids and reassigns points in an iterative process until centroids stabilize. While efficient, k-means clustering has weaknesses in that it requires specifying k, can get stuck in local optima, and is not suitable for non-convex shaped clusters or noisy data.
Random Forest Algorithm - Random Forest Explained | Random Forest In Machine ...Simplilearn
This Random Forest Algorithm Presentation will explain how Random Forest algorithm works in Machine Learning. By the end of this video, you will be able to understand what is Machine Learning, what is classification problem, applications of Random Forest, why we need Random Forest, how it works with simple examples and how to implement Random Forest algorithm in Python.
Below are the topics covered in this Machine Learning Presentation:
1. What is Machine Learning?
2. Applications of Random Forest
3. What is Classification?
4. Why Random Forest?
5. Random Forest and Decision Tree
6. Comparing Random Forest and Regression
7. Use case - Iris Flower Analysis
- - - - - - - -
About Simplilearn Machine Learning course:
A form of artificial intelligence, Machine Learning is revolutionizing the world of computing as well as all people’s digital interactions. Machine Learning powers such innovative automated technologies as recommendation engines, facial recognition, fraud protection and even self-driving cars.This Machine Learning course prepares engineers, data scientists and other professionals with knowledge and hands-on skills required for certification and job competency in Machine Learning.
- - - - - - -
Why learn Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is taking over the world- and with that, there is a growing need among companies for professionals to know the ins and outs of Machine Learning
The Machine Learning market size is expected to grow from USD 1.03 Billion in 2016 to USD 8.81 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.1% during the forecast period.
- - - - - -
What skills will you learn from this Machine Learning course?
By the end of this Machine Learning course, you will be able to:
1. Master the concepts of supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning concepts and modeling.
2. Gain practical mastery over principles, algorithms, and applications of Machine Learning through a hands-on approach which includes working on 28 projects and one capstone project.
3. Acquire thorough knowledge of the mathematical and heuristic aspects of Machine Learning.
4. Understand the concepts and operation of support vector machines, kernel SVM, naive Bayes, decision tree classifier, random forest classifier, logistic regression, K-nearest neighbors, K-means clustering and more.
5. Be able to model a wide variety of robust Machine Learning algorithms including deep learning, clustering, and recommendation systems
- - - - - - -
Application of Machine Learning in AgricultureAman Vasisht
With the growing trend of machine learning, it is needless to say how machine learning can help reap benefits in agriculture. It will be boon for the farmer welfare.
This presentation discusses about following topics:
Types of Problems Solved Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Problem categories
Classification Algorithms
Naive Bayes
Example: A person playing golf
Decision Tree
Random Forest
Logistic Regression
Support Vector Machine
Support Vector Machine
K Nearest Neighbors
The document discusses key concepts in neural networks including units, layers, batch normalization, cost/loss functions, regularization techniques, activation functions, backpropagation, learning rates, and optimization methods. It provides definitions and explanations of these concepts at a high level. For example, it defines units as the activation function that transforms inputs via a nonlinear function, and hidden layers as layers other than the input and output layers that receive weighted input and pass transformed values to the next layer. It also summarizes common cost functions, regularization approaches like dropout, and optimization methods like gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent.
K-Nearest neighbor is one of the most commonly used classifier based in lazy learning. It is one of the most commonly used methods in recommendation systems and document similarity measures. It mainly uses Euclidean distance to find the similarity measures between two data points.
1. The document discusses decision trees, bagging, and random forests. It provides an overview of how classification and regression trees (CART) work using a binary tree data structure and recursive data partitioning. It then explains how bagging generates diverse trees by bootstrap sampling and averages the results. Finally, it describes how random forests improve upon bagging by introducing random feature selection to generate less correlated and more accurate trees.
Machine learning session6(decision trees random forrest)Abhimanyu Dwivedi
Concepts include decision tree with its examples. Measures used for splitting in decision tree like gini index, entropy, information gain, pros and cons, validation. Basics of random forests with its example and uses.
The document examines using a nearest neighbor algorithm to rate men's suits based on color combinations. It trained the algorithm on 135 outfits rated as good, mediocre, or bad. It then tested the algorithm on 30 outfits rated by a human. When trained on 135 outfits, the algorithm incorrectly rated 36.7% of test outfits. When trained on only 68 outfits, it incorrectly rated 50% of test outfits, showing larger training data improves accuracy. It also tested using HSL color representation instead of RGB with similar results.
This document summarizes the work done by an intern during their summer internship in the Medical Physics Department of Radiology. The intern conducted research to predict cancer outcomes based on breast lesion features. Key work included feature extraction from mammograms, analyzing features to differentiate malignant and benign lesions using ROC analysis and LDA, and exploring features to predict invasive vs. non-invasive cancer. Top predictive features were FWHM ROI, diameter, and margin sharpness. The intern gained skills in medical image analysis, statistical analysis, and evaluating results to identify trends.
A presentation about NGBoost (Natural Gradient Boosting) which I presented in the Information Theory and Probabilistic Programming course at the University of Oklahoma.
This document discusses evaluating machine learning model performance. It covers classification evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrices. It also discusses regression metrics like MAE, MSE, and RMSE. The document discusses techniques for dealing with class imbalance like oversampling and undersampling. It provides examples of evaluating models and interpreting results based on these various performance metrics.
This document summarizes the NGBoost method for probabilistic regression. NGBoost uses gradient boosting to fit the parameters of an assumed probabilistic distribution for the target variable. It improves on existing probabilistic regression methods by using the natural gradient, which performs gradient descent in the space of distributions rather than the parameter space. This addresses issues with prior approaches and allows NGBoost to achieve state-of-the-art performance while remaining fast, flexible, and scalable. Future work may apply NGBoost to other problems like survival analysis or joint outcome regression.
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Support vector machines (SVMs) are a supervised machine learning algorithm used for classification and regression analysis. SVMs find the optimal boundary, known as a hyperplane, that separates classes of data. This hyperplane maximizes the margin between the two classes. Extensions to the basic SVM model include soft margin classification to allow some misclassified points, methods for multi-class classification like one-vs-one and one-vs-all, and the use of kernel functions to handle non-linear decision boundaries. Real-world applications of SVMs include face detection, text categorization, image classification, and bioinformatics.
Here are the key steps to run a REINFORCE algorithm on the CartPole environment using SLM Lab:
1. Define the REINFORCE agent configuration in a spec file. This specifies things like the algorithm name, hyperparameters, network architecture, optimizer, etc.
2. Define the CartPole environment configuration.
3. Initialize SLM Lab and load the spec file:
```js
const slmLab = require('slm-lab');
slmLab.init();
const spec = require('./reinforce_cartpole.js');
```
4. Create an experiment with the spec:
```js
const experiment = new slmLab.Experiment(spec
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Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of big annotated data and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which had been addressed until now with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks and Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles and applications of deep learning to computer vision problems, such as image classification, object detection or text captioning.
A decision tree is a guide to the potential results of a progression of related choices. It permits an individual or association to gauge potential activities against each other dependent on their costs, probabilities, and advantages. They can be utilized either to drive casual conversation or to outline a calculation that predicts the most ideal decision scientifically.
Supervised learning uses labeled training data to predict outcomes for new data. Unsupervised learning uses unlabeled data to discover patterns. Some key machine learning algorithms are described, including decision trees, naive Bayes classification, k-nearest neighbors, and support vector machines. Performance metrics for classification problems like accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and specificity are discussed.
This document provides an overview of machine learning concepts including feature selection, dimensionality reduction techniques like principal component analysis and singular value decomposition, feature encoding, normalization and scaling, dataset construction, feature engineering, data exploration, machine learning types and categories, model selection criteria, popular Python libraries, tuning techniques like cross-validation and hyperparameters, and performance analysis metrics like confusion matrix, accuracy, F1 score, ROC curve, and bias-variance tradeoff.
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Cross validation is a technique for evaluating machine learning models by splitting the dataset into training and validation sets and training the model multiple times on different splits, to reduce variance. K-fold cross validation splits the data into k equally sized folds, where each fold is used once for validation while the remaining k-1 folds are used for training. Leave-one-out cross validation uses a single observation from the dataset as the validation set. Stratified k-fold cross validation ensures each fold has the same class proportions as the full dataset. Grid search evaluates all combinations of hyperparameters specified as a grid, while randomized search samples hyperparameters randomly within specified ranges. Learning curves show training and validation performance as a function of training set size and can diagnose underfitting
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What is an Algorithm
Time Complexity
Space Complexity
Asymptotic Notations
Recursive Analysis
Selection Sort
Insertion Sort
Recurrences
Substitution Method
Master Tree Method
Recursion Tree Method
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- The history and applications of logic.
- Different types of statements and their grammar.
- Propositional logic including symbols, connectives, truth tables, and semantics.
- Quantifiers, universal and existential quantification, and properties of quantifiers.
- Normal forms such as disjunctive normal form and conjunctive normal form.
- Inference rules and the principle of mathematical induction, illustrated with examples.
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2. SUPERVISED LEARNING - CLASSIFICATION
Evaluation Metric
Logistic Regression
k Nearest Neighbor
Linear SVM
Kernel
DT
Issue in DT learning
Ensemble- Bagging
RF
Ensemble – Boosting
Adaboost
Use case
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3. Performance
◦ Null Hypothesis: commonly accepted fact that you wish to test eg. data scientist salary on an av. is 113,000 dollars.
◦ Alternative Hypothesis: everything else eg. mean data scientist salary is not 113,000 dollars.
◦ Type I error (FP): Rejecting a true null hypothesis
◦ Type II error (FN): Accepting a false null hypothesis
◦ Confusion Matrix
◦ Accuracy = (TP+TN)/(TP+FN+FP+TN)
◦ Precision = TP/(TP+FP) eg. No. of patients diagnosed as having cancer actually had
◦ Recall/Sensitivity = TP/(TP+FN) eg. What portion of patients that actually had cancer were diagnosed by model as
having
◦ Specificity = TN/(TN+FP) eg. Benign patients predicted benign
◦ F-score = (2*P*R)/(P+R)
PredictedActual Positive Negative
Positive TP FP
Negative FN TN
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4. Logistic Regression
Specialized case of Generalized Linear Model
◦ Just like LR, LoR can work with both continuous data eg. weight and discrete data eg. gender.
◦ A statistical model predicting the likelihood / probability.
◦ Uses logistic / sigmoid function to model binary/dichotomous/categorical dependent variable.
• It is a mathematical function used to map the predicted values to probabilities. It forms a "S" curve.
• In logistic regression, we use the concept of the threshold value, such that values above the threshold tends to 1, and a
value below the threshold tends to 0. Thus any real value is mapped into another value within a range of 0 and 1.
◦ Assumes no / very little multicollinearity between predictor / independent variables.
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5. Mathematics
◦ Null Hypothesis H0: A relationship exists between predictor and response variable
◦ prob of success p = 0.8, prob of failure q = 1-p = 0.2 range [0,1]
◦ Odds(odds ratio) = success/failure = p/(1-p)
◦ Odds of success=p/q=4 range = [0,∞]
◦ log(odds) OR logit(p) = log(p/(1-p)) = z range=[-∞, ∞] as in Linear Regression
◦ p = elog(odds) / (1+elog(odds))
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9. Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• Probabilistic framework for estimating parameters of
model follows Bernoulli distribution.
• Log likelihood
• This negative function is because when we train, we
need to maximize the probability by minimizing loss
function.
• Decreasing the cost will increase the maximum
likelihood assuming that samples are drawn from an
identically independent distribution.
• When the model is a poor fit, log likelihood is
relatively large negative value and when model is a
good fit, log likelihood is close to zero.
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13. Use Cases
◦ Email spam
◦ Credit card fraud
◦ Cancer benign/ malignant
◦ Predict if a user will invest in term deposit
◦ Loan defaulter
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14. ADVANTAGES
• It is simple to implement
• Works well for linearly separable data
• Gives a measure of how relevant an
independent variable is through coefficient
• Tells us about the direction of the relationship
(positive or negative)
DISADVANTAGES
• Fails to predict continuous outcome
• Linearity assumption
• Not accurate for small sample size
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15. PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◦ A team scored 285 runs in a cricket match. Assuming regression coefficients to be 0.3548 and 0.00089 respectively, calculate
its probability of winning the match.
◦ You are applying for a home loan and your credit score is 720. Assuming logistic regression coefficient to be 9.346 and 0.0146
respectively, calculate probability of home loan application getting approved.
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16. K Nearest Neighbor
◦ non-parametric: it does not make any underlying assumptions
about the distribution of data
◦ Intuition: given an unclassified point, we can assign it to a group
by observing what group it’s nearest neighbors belong to
• K-NN algorithm can be used for Regression as well as for
Classification but mostly it is used for the Classification
problems
• It is also called a lazy learner algorithm because it does not
learn from the training set instead it stores the dataset during
training phase and at the time of classification, it performs an
action on the dataset.
• Also, the accuracy of the above classifier increases as we increase
the number of data points in the training set.
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17. Algorithm
Step-1: Select the number K of the neighbors
Step-2: Calculate the Euclidean distance of K number of neighbors
Step-3: Take the K nearest neighbors as per the calculated Euclidean distance.
Step-4: Among these k neighbors, count the number of the data points in each category.
Step-5: Assign the new data points to that category for which the number of the neighbor is maximum.
Step-6: Our model is ready.
K can be kept as an odd number so that we can calculate a clear majority in the case where only two groups are
possible (e.g. Red/Blue). Most preferred value is 5. A very low value, can be noisy and lead to effects of outliers in
model. With increasing K, we get smoother, more defined boundaries across different classifications.
Example: Suppose, we have an image of a creature that looks similar to cat and dog, but we want to know either it is a
cat or dog. So for this identification, we can use the KNN algorithm, as it works on a similarity measure. Our KNN
model will find the similar features of the new data set to the cats and dogs images and based on the most similar
features it will put it in either cat or dog category.
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18. Distance metric
◦ Minkowski Distance
◦ Euclidean Distance if input variables similar in type eg. width, height
◦ Manhattan Distance / City block distance if grid like path
◦ Hamming Distance between binary vectors
◦ Others: Jaccard, Mahalanobis, cosine similarity, Tanimoto, etc.
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19. Numerical Example
x1=acid durability (sec) x2=strength (kg/m2) y=class Euclidean Distance
7 7 Bad 16
7 4 Bad 25
3 4 Good 9
1 4 Good 13
Factory produces a new paper tissue that passes lab test with x1=3, x2=7. Classify this tissue.
1. k? k=3
2. Compute distance
3. Sort dist. and determine nearest neighbor based on kth min. dist.
4. Gather category y of nearest neighbors
5. Use simple majority as prediction of query instance
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20. Use Case
◦ Application
◦ pattern recognition
◦ data mining
◦ intrusion detection
◦ recommender
◦ products on Amazon
◦ articles on Medium
◦ movies on Netflix
◦ videos on YouTube
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21. ADVANTAGES
• It is simple to implement.
• No hyperparameter tuning required.
• Makes no assumptions about data.
• Quite useful as in real world most data doesn’t
obey typical theoretical assumptions.
• No explicit training phase hence fast.
DISADVANTAGES
• The computation cost is high because of calculating the
distance between data points for all the training samples.
• Since all training data required for computation of
distance, algo requires large amount of memory.
• Prediction stage is slow.
• Sensitive to irrelevant features.
• Sensitive to scale of data.
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22. SVM
◦ Discriminative classifier
◦ Extreme data points – support vectors (only support vectors are important whereas other training example are ignorable)
◦ Hyperplane – best separates two classes
◦ If the number of input features is 2, then the hyperplane is just a line. If the number of input features is 3, then the hyperplane
becomes a two-dimensional plane.
◦ Unoptimized decision boundary could result in more miss classifications
◦ Maximum Margin classifier
◦ Margin = double the distance (perpendicular) between hyperplane and support vector (closest data point)
◦ Super sensitive to outliers in training data if they are considered as support vectors.
◦ In SVM, if the output of linear function is greater than 1, we identify it with one class and if the output is -1, we identify it with
another class. The threshold values are changed to 1 and -1 in SVM, which acts as margin.
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24. Assumptions and Types
• Numerical Inputs: SVM assumes that your inputs are numeric. If you have categorical inputs you
may need to covert them to binary dummy variables (one variable for each category).
• Binary Classification: Basic SVM is intended for binary (two-class) classification problems.
Although, extensions have been developed for regression and multi-class classification.
• Soft margin: allows some samples to be placed on wrong side of margin.
• Hard margin
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From slide 10
C = 1/λ
C controls cost of misclassification of training data
26. Non Linear SVM
z=x^2+y^2
Transformation through nonlinear mapping function into linearly separable data
Kernel Types:
Linear
Polynomial
RBF/Gaussian (weighted NN) squared Euclidean distance, γ = 1/(2σ2)
Exponential
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SVM poses a quadratic optimization problem that looks for maximizing the margin between both classes and
minimizing the amount of miss-classifications. For non-separable problems, in order to find a solution, the
miss-classification constraint must be relaxed, and this is done by "regularization“.
27. Regularization
C is the penalty parameter, which
represents misclassification or error term
i.e. how much error is bearable.
This is how you can control the trade-off
between decision boundary and
misclassification term.
A smaller value of C creates a large-
margin hyperplane that is tolerant of miss
classifications.
Large value of C creates a small-margin
hyperplane and thus overfits and heavily
penalizes for misclassified points.
γ represents the spread of Kernel i.e. decision region
A lower value of Gamma will loosely fit the training dataset since
it considers only nearby points in calculating the separation line.
Higher value of gamma will exactly fit the training dataset
creating islands, which causes over-fitting since it considers all
the data points in the calculation of the separation line.
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28. Use Case and Variants
◦ Face Recognition
◦ Intrusion detection
◦ Classification of emails, news articles and web pages
◦ Classification of genes
◦ Handwriting recognition.
◦ You can use a numerical optimization procedure as stochastic gradient descent to search for the coefficients of the hyperplane.
◦ The most popular method for fitting SVM is the Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) method that is very efficient. It breaks
the Quadratic Programming problem down into sub-problems that can be solved analytically (by calculating) rather than
numerically (by searching or optimizing) through Lagrangian Multiplier by satisfying Karush Kahun Tucker (KKT) conditions.
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29. ADVANTAGES
• Effective in high dimensional space
• Applicable for both classification and regression
• Their dependence on relatively few support vectors
means that they are very compact models, and take up
very little memory.
• Once the model is trained, the prediction phase is very
fast
• Effective when no. of features > no. of samples
• Support overlapping classes
DISADVANTAGES
• Don’t provide probability estimates, these are
calculated using an expensive five-fold cross-
validation
• Requires scaling of features
• Sensitive to outliers
• Sensitive to the type of kernel used
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30. PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◦ Given the following data, calculate hyperplane. Also classify (0.6,0.9) based on calculated hyperplane.
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A1 A2 y
0.38 0.47 +
0.49 0.61 -
0.92 0.41 -
0.74 0.89 -
0.18 0.58 +
0.41 0.35 +
0.93 0.81 -
0.21 0.1 +
31. Multiclass / Multinomial Classification
◦ One vs One (OvO)
Eg. red, blue, green, yellow class
red vs blue, red vs green, red vs yellow, blue vs green, blue vs
yellow, green vs yellow
6 datasets i.e. c*(c-1)/2 models for c classes
Most votes for classification. argmax of sum of scores for
numerical class membership as probability
High computational complexity
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◦ One vs Rest (OvR) One vs All (OvA)
Eg. red vs [blue, green, yellow]
blue vs [red, green, yellow]
green vs [red, blue, yellow]
yellow vs [red, blue, green]
C models for c classes
32. Decision Tree
◦ DT asks a question and classifies an instance based on an answer
◦ Categorical data, numeric data or ranked data. Outcome category or numeric
◦ Intuitive top down approach, follows If Then rules
◦ Interpretable and graphically representable
◦ Instances or tuples represented as attribute value pairs
◦ Performs Recursive Partitioning (greedy)
◦ Root (entire population/sample), internal node, leaf node
◦ Impure node
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34. Attribute selection measures (heuristic)
◦ Entropy defines randomness/variance in data = -plog2p - qlog2q i.e. how unpredictable it is
◦ If p=q, entropy=1; p=1/0, entropy=0
◦ Information Gain is decrease in entropy post split. Chose attribute with highest information gain
◦ IG=Entropy(S)-[weighted av.*entropy of each feature]
◦ Gain Ratio = Gain/Split Info, where split info provides normalisation
◦ Gini Index/Impurity = 1-p2-q2
◦ Compute for each feature, chose lowest impurity feature for root
◦ Perfect split: gini impurity=0, higher the gini gain, better the split
◦ Use entropy for exponential data distribution
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35. Determine the attribute that best classifies the training data
Example
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39. ID3 algo
1.Create root node for the tree
2.If all examples are positive, return leaf node ‘positive’
3.Else if all examples are negative, return leaf node ‘negative’
4.Calculate the entropy of current state H(S)
5.For each attribute, calculate the entropy with respect to the attribute ‘x’ denoted by H(S, x)
6.Select the attribute which has maximum value of IG(S, x)
7.Remove the attribute that offers highest IG from the set of attributes
8.Repeat until we run out of all attributes, or the decision tree has all leaf nodes.
40. ADVANTAGES
• Can be used with missing values
• Can handle multidimensional data
• Doesn’t require any domain knowledge
DISADVANTAGES
◦ Suffers from overfitting
◦ Handling continuous attributes
◦ Choosing appropriate attribute selection measure
◦ Handling attributes with differing costs
◦ Improving computational efficiency
41. SA
◦ X=(age=youth, income=medium,
student=yes, credit_rating=fair)
sr.no. age income student credit buy_computer
1 <30 High No Fair No
2 <30 High No Excellent No
3 31-40 High No Fair Yes
4 >40 Medium No Fair Yes
5 >40 Low Yes Fair Yes
6 >40 Low Yes Excellent No
7 31-40 Low Yes Excellent Yes
8 <30 Medium No Fair No
9 <30 Low Yes Fair Yes
10 >40 Medium Yes Fair Yes
11 <30 Medium Yes Excellent Yes
12 31-40 Medium No Excellent Yes
13 31-40 High Yes Fair Yes
14 >40 Medium No Excellent No
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42. Issues in DT learning
◦ Determine how deeply to grow the decision tree
◦ Handling continuous attributes
◦ Choosing an appropriate attribute selection measure
◦ Handling training data with missing attribute values
◦ Handling attributes with differing costs
◦ Cost Sensitive DT
◦ Improving computational efficiency
◦ Overfitting in DT learning
◦ Pre Prune: Stop growing before it reaches a point where it perfectly classifies the data
◦ Post Prune: Grow full tree then prune
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43. Ensemble Learning
I want to invest in a company XYZ. I am not sure about its performance though. So, I look for advice on whether the stock price will increase more
than 6% per annum or not? I decide to approach various experts having diverse domain experience:
1. Employee of Company XYZ: This person knows the internal functionality of the company and has the insider information about the functionality of
the firm. But he lacks a broader perspective on how are competitors innovating, how is the technology evolving and what will be the impact of this
evolution on Company XYZ’s product. In the past, he has been right 70% times.
2. Financial Advisor of Company XYZ: This person has a broader perspective on how companies strategy will fair of in this competitive environment.
However, he lacks a view on how the company’s internal policies are fairing off. In the past, he has been right 75% times.
3. Stock Market Trader: This person has observed the company’s stock price over past 3 years. He knows the seasonality trends and how the overall
market is performing. He also has developed a strong intuition on how stocks might vary over time. In the past, he has been right 70% times.
4. Employee of a competitor: This person knows the internal functionality of the competitor firms and is aware of certain changes which are yet to be
brought. He lacks a sight of company in focus and the external factors which can relate the growth of competitor with the company of subject. In the
past, he has been right 60% of times.
5. Market Research team in same segment: This team analyzes the customer preference of company XYZ’s product over others and how is this
changing with time. Because he deals with customer side, he is unaware of the changes company XYZ will bring because of alignment to its own
goals. In the past, they have been right 75% of times.
6. Social Media Expert: This person can help us understand how has company XYZ positioned its products in the market. And how are the sentiment
of customers changing over time towards company. He is unaware of any kind of details beyond digital marketing. In the past, he has been right
65% of times.
Given the broad spectrum of access we have, we can probably combine all the information and make an informed decision.
In a scenario when all the 6 experts/teams verify that it’s a good decision (assuming all the predictions are independent of each other), we will get a
combined accuracy rate of
1 - 30%*25%*30%*40%*25%*35%= 1 - 0.07875 = 99.92125%
44. Variance vs Bias
◦ Bias error is useful to quantify how much on an average are the predicted
values different from the actual value. A high bias error means we have a
under-performing model which keeps on missing important trends.
◦ Variance on the other side quantifies how are the prediction made on same
observation different from each other. A high variance model will over-fit on
your training population and perform badly on any observation beyond
training.
45. Ensemble (Unity is Strength)
◦ Hypothesis: when weak models (base learners) are correctly combined we can obtain more accurate and/or robust models.
◦ Bagging: homogenous weak learners learn in parallel then prediction averaged
◦ Focusses to reduce variance
◦ Boosting: homogenous weak learners learn sequentially
◦ Stacking: heterogenous weak learners learn in parallel
◦ Focus to reduce bias
◦ Homogenous learners built using same ML model
◦ Heterogenous learners built using different models
◦ Weak Learner eg. Decision Stump (one level DT)
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46. Bagging (Bootstrap AGgreGatING)
Random Sampling with replacement for almost independent and almost representative data
(unit selected at random from population is returned and second element selected)
Simple average for Regression, simple majority vote for Classification (hard voting, soft voting)
Out-of-bag sample to evaluate Bagging Classifier
48. Random Forest
◦ Trees are very popular base models for ensemble methods.
◦ Strong learners composed of multiple trees can be called “forests”.
◦ Multiple trees allow for probabilistic classification and they are built independent of each other.
◦ Trees that compose a forest can be chosen to be either shallow or deep.
◦ Shallow trees have less variance but higher bias and they will be better choice for sequential models i.e. boosting.
◦ Deep trees, have low bias but high variance and are relevant choices for bagging method that is mainly focused at
reducing variance.
◦ RF use a trick to make multiple fitted trees a bit less correlated with each other. When growing, each tree instead of
only sampling over the observations in the dataset to generate a bootstrap sample, we also sample over features and
keep only a random subset of them to build the tree. It makes the decision making process more robust to missing
data.
◦ Thus RF combines the concepts of bagging and random feature subspace selection to create more robust models.
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50. Boosting
◦ In sequential methods the idea is to fit models iteratively such that the training of model at a given step
depends on the models fitted at the previous steps.
◦ It produces an ensemble model that is in general less biased than the weak learners that compose it.
◦ Each model in the sequence is fitted giving more importance to observations in the dataset that were badly
handled by the previous models in the sequence.
◦ Intuitively, each new model focusses its efforts on the most difficult observations to fit up to now, so that we
obtain, at the end of the process, a strong learner with lower bias (notice that boosting can also have the effect
of reducing variance).
◦ Boosting, like bagging, can be used for regression as well as for classification problems.
◦ If we want to use trees as our base models, we will choose most of the time shallow decision trees with only a
few depths. Tree with one node is termed as a Stump.
◦ Types: Adaboost (SAMME), GradientBoost, XGBoost, GBM, LGBM, CatBoost, etc.
51. ADAptive BOOSTing
◦ Adaptive boosting updates the weights attached to each of the training dataset observations
◦ It trains and deploys trees in series
◦ Sensitive to noisy data and outliers
◦ Iterative optimization process
◦ Variants LogitBoost, L2Boost
◦ Usecase: face detection
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53. Stacking
◦ considers heterogeneous weak learners (different learning algorithms are combined)
◦ learns to combine the base models using a meta-model
◦ For example, for a classification problem, we can choose as weak learners a kNN classifier, a logistic
regressor and a SVM, and decide to learn a Neural Network as meta-model. Then, the neural network will
take as inputs the outputs of our three weak learners and will learn to return final predictions based on it.
◦ Variants include Multi level stacking
◦ Usecase: Classification of Cancer Microarrays
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1 Explain various basic evaluation measures of supervised learning Algorithms for Classification.
2 Explain odds ratio and logit transformation.
3 Why is the Maximum Likelihood Estimation method used?
4 Justify the need of regularization in Logistic Regression
5 Differentiate Linear and Logistic regression.
6 Explain how Radial Basis function Network a nonlinearly separable problem to a linearly separable problem.
7 Explain key terminologies of SVM: hyperplane, separating hyperplane, hard margin, soft margin, support vectors.
8 Examine why SVM is more accurate than Logistic Regression.
9 Create optimal hyperplane for following points: {(1,1), (2,1), (1,-1), (2,-1), (4,0), (5,1), (6,0)}
10 For the given data, determine the entropy after classification using each attribute for classification separately and find which attribute is set as decision attribute for root by finding
information gain w.r.t. entropy of Temperature as reference attribute.
11 Create DT for attribute class using respective values:
12 What is a decision tree? How will you choose the best attribute for decision tree classifier? Give suitable examples.
13 Explain procedure to construct decision trees.
14 Discuss ensembles with the objective of resolving issues in DT learning.
15 What is the significance of the Gini Index as splitting criteria?
16 Differentiate ID3, CART and C4.5.
17 Suppose we apply DT learning to a training set. What if the training set size goes to infinity, will the learning algorithm return the correct tree. Why or why not?
18 Explain the working of the Bagging or Boosting ensemble.
19 Compare types of Boosting algorithms.
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