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10 Python One-Liners Every Machine Learning Practitioner Should Know
Developing machine learning systems entails a well-established lifecycle, consisting of a series of stages from data preparation and preprocessing to modeling, validation, deployment to production, and continuous maintenance.
3 Ways to Speed Up and Improve Your XGBoost Models
Extreme gradient boosting ( XGBoost ) is one of the most prominent machine learning techniques used not only for experimentation and analysis but also in deployed predictive solutions in industry.
5 Key Ways LLMs Can Supercharge Your Machine Learning Workflow
Experimenting, fine-tuning, scaling, and more are key aspects that machine learning development workflows thrive on.
7 Pandas Tricks for Efficient Data Merging
Data merging is the process of combining data from different sources into a unified dataset.
How to Decide Between Random Forests and Gradient Boosting
When working with machine learning on structured data, two algorithms often rise to the top of the shortlist: random forests and gradient boosting .
A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Regression
In this article, you will learn: • The fundamental difference between traditional regression, which uses single fixed values for its parameters, and Bayesian regression, which models them as probability distributions.
10 Useful NumPy One-Liners for Time Series Analysis
Working with time series data often means wrestling with the same patterns over and over: calculating moving averages, detecting spikes, creating features for forecasting models.
Logistic vs SVM vs Random Forest: Which One Wins for Small Datasets?
When you have a small dataset, choosing the right machine learning model can make a big difference.
5 Scikit-learn Pipeline Tricks to Supercharge Your Workflow
Perhaps one of the most underrated yet powerful features that scikit-learn has to offer, pipelines are a great ally for building effective and modular machine learning workflows.
Seeing Images Through the Eyes of Decision Trees
In this article, you'll learn to: • Turn unstructured, raw image data into structured, informative features.
7 Pandas Tricks to Improve Your Machine Learning Model Development
If you're reading this, it's likely that you are already aware that the performance of a machine learning model is not just a function of the chosen algorithm.
A Practical Guide to Handling Out-of-Memory Data in Python
These days, it is not uncommon to come across datasets that are too large to fit into random access memory (RAM), especially when working on advanced data analysis projects at scale, managing streaming data generated at high velocity, or building large machine learning models.
The Bias-Variance Trade-Off: A Visual Explainer
You've built a machine learning model that performs perfectly on training data but fails on new examples.
How to Diagnose Why Your Classification Model Fails
In classification models , failure occurs when the model assigns the wrong class to a new data observation; that is, when its classification accuracy is not high enough over a certain number of predictions.
7 NumPy Tricks You Didn’t Know You Needed
NumPy is one of the most popular Python libraries for working with numbers and data.
7 Matplotlib Tricks to Better Visualize Your Machine Learning Models
Visualizing model performance is an essential piece of the machine learning workflow puzzle.
Making Sense of Text with Decision Trees
In this article, you will learn: • Build a decision tree classifier for spam email detection that analyzes text data.
How to Interpret Your XGBoost Model: A Practical Guide to Feature Importance
One of the most widespread machine learning techniques is XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting).
Grok’s Share and Claude’s Leak: 5 Things We Can Learn From System Prompts
The foundational instructions that govern the operation and user/model interaction of language models (also known as system prompts) are able to offer insights into how we — as users, AI practitioners, and developers — can optimize our interactions, approach future model advancements, and develop useful language model-driven applications.
7 Pandas Tricks for Time-Series Feature Engineering
Feature engineering is one of the most important steps when it comes to building effective machine learning models, and this is no less important when dealing with time-series data.
Time-Series Transformation Toolkit: Feature Engineering for Predictive Analytics
In time series analysis and forecasting , transforming data is often necessary to uncover underlying patterns, stabilize properties like variance, and improve the performance of predictive models.
A Gentle Introduction to Q-Learning
Reinforcement learning is a relatively lesser-known area of artificial intelligence (AI) compared to highly popular subfields today, such as machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
Building a Decoder-Only Transformer Model Like Llama-2 and Llama-3
This post is divided into five parts; they are: • From a Full Transformer to a Decoder-Only Model • Building a Decoder-Only Model • Data Preparation for Self-Supervised Learning • Training the Model • Extensions The transformer model originated as a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model that converts an input sequence into a context vector, which is then used to generate a new sequence.
Building a Transformer Model for Language Translation
This post is divided into six parts;they are: • Why Transformer is Better than Seq2Seq • Data Preparation and Tokenization • Design of a Transformer Model • Building the Transformer Model • Causal Mask and Padding Mask • Training and Evaluation Traditional seq2seq models with recurrent neural networks have two main limitations: • Sequential processing prevents parallelization • Limited ability to capture long-term dependencies since hidden states are overwritten whenever an element is processed The Transformer architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper "Attention is All You Need", overcomes these limitations.
How to Diagnose Why Your Regression Model Fails
In regression models , failure occurs when the model produces inaccurate predictions — that is, when error metrics like MAE or RMSE are high — or when the model, once deployed, fails to generalize well to new data that differs from the examples it was trained or tested on.
Implementing Advanced Feature Scaling Techniques in Python Step-by-Step
In this article, you will learn: • Why standard scaling methods are sometimes insufficient and when to use advanced techniques.
Your First Containerized Machine Learning Deployment with Docker and FastAPI
Deploying machine learning models can seem complex, but modern tools can streamline the process.
Building a Seq2Seq Model with Attention for Language Translation
This post is divided into four parts; they are: • Why Attnetion Matters: Limitations of Basic Seq2Seq Models • Implementing Seq2Seq Model with Attention • Training and Evaluating the Model • Using the Model Traditional seq2seq models use an encoder-decoder architecture where the encoder compresses the input sequence into a single context vector, which the decoder then uses to generate the output sequence.
Beyond Pandas: 7 Advanced Data Manipulation Techniques for Large Datasets
If you've worked with data in Python, chances are you've used Pandas many times.
Image Augmentation Techniques to Boost Your CV Model Performance
In this article, you will learn: • the purpose and benefits of image augmentation techniques in computer vision for improving model generalization and diversity.
10 Critical Mistakes that Silently Ruin Machine Learning Projects
Machine learning projects can be as exciting as they are challenging.
Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classification with Scikit-LLM
In this article, you will learn: • how Scikit-LLM integrates large language models like OpenAI's GPT with the Scikit-learn framework for text analysis.
Building a Plain Seq2Seq Model for Language Translation
This post is divided into five parts; they are: • Preparing the Dataset for Training • Implementing the Seq2Seq Model with LSTM • Training the Seq2Seq Model • Using the Seq2Seq Model • Improving the Seq2Seq Model In
Word Embeddings for Tabular Data Feature Engineering
It would be difficult to argue that word embeddings — dense vector representations of words — have not dramatically revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) by quantitatively capturing semantic relationships between words.
Decision Trees Aren’t Just for Tabular Data
Versatile, interpretable, and effective for a variety of use cases, decision trees have been among the most well-established machine learning techniques for decades, widely used for classification and regression tasks.
10 NumPy One-Liners to Simplify Feature Engineering
When building machine learning models, most developers focus on model architectures and hyperparameter tuning.
Securing FastAPI Endpoints for MLOps: An Authentication Guide
In today's AI world, data scientists are not just focused on training and optimizing machine learning models.
Skip Connections in Transformer Models
This post is divided into three parts; they are: • Why Skip Connections are Needed in Transformers • Implementation of Skip Connections in Transformer Models • Pre-norm vs Post-norm Transformer Architectures Transformer models, like other deep learning models, stack many layers on top of each other.
5 Advanced RAG Architectures Beyond Traditional Methods
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has shaken up the world of language models by combining the best of two worlds:
Mixture of Experts Architecture in Transformer Models
This post covers three main areas: • Why Mixture of Experts is Needed in Transformers • How Mixture of Experts Works • Implementation of MoE in Transformer Models The Mixture of Experts (MoE) concept was first introduced in 1991 by
Your First Local LLM API Project in Python Step-By-Step
Interested in leveraging a large language model (LLM) API locally on your machine using Python and not-too-overwhelming tools frameworks? In this step-by-step article, you will set up a local API where you'll be able to send prompts to an LLM downloaded on your machine and obtain responses back.
Linear Layers and Activation Functions in Transformer Models
This post is divided into three parts; they are: • Why Linear Layers and Activations are Needed in Transformers • Typical Design of the Feed-Forward Network • Variations of the Activation Functions The attention layer is the core function of a transformer model.