Welcome to Advanced Machine Learning Techniques, where you'll dive deep into sophisticated approaches that power modern AI applications. We'll explore five key areas of advanced ML: ensemble methods for combining models, dimensionality reduction techniques for handling complex data, natural language processing for text analysis, reinforcement learning for decision-making systems, and automated machine learning for optimization. You'll work hands-on with industry-standard tools including Scikit-learn, XGBoost, NLTK, PyTorch, and MLflow, learning how to implement and optimize advanced algorithms in real-world scenarios.

Advanced Machine Learning Techniques

Advanced Machine Learning Techniques
This course is part of multiple programs.
This course is part of multiple programs

Instructor: Professionals from the Industry
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Intermediate level
Basic familiarity with Python syntax, Data structures and Linear Algebra concepts like vectors, matrices, dot products, and Eigenvalues.
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Basic familiarity with Python syntax, Data structures and Linear Algebra concepts like vectors, matrices, dot products, and Eigenvalues.
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There are 5 modules in this course
In this module, you will establish ensemble learning techniques including bagging, boosting, and stacking. You'll learn how to combine multiple models to improve predictive performance and implement them using popular libraries like Scikit-learn, XGBoost, and LightGBM. Through hands-on practice, you'll evaluate ensemble models using cross-validation and learn to optimize their hyperparameters.
What's included
16 videos8 readings5 assignments4 ungraded labs
16 videos• Total 48 minutes
- Welcome to Advanced Machine Learning Techniques• 2 minutes
- Why Single Decision Trees Can Overfit: A Visual Primer• 3 minutes
- How Bagging Stabilizes Predictions and Reduces Variance• 2 minutes
- Random Forest for Classification: Iris Dataset Walkthrough• 4 minutes
- Random Forest for Regression: Predicting House Prices• 3 minutes
- Why Weak Learners Fail — And What Boosting Tries to Fix• 2 minutes
- How Boosting Learns from Mistakes — One Model at a Time• 3 minutes
- Implementing XGBoost and LightGBM for Boosted Classification• 3 minutes
- What Is Stacking? A Simple Visual Explanation• 3 minutes
- How to Train a Stacking Model (Without Leaking Data)• 4 minutes
- Hands-On: Setting Up Base Models for Stacking in Scikit-learn• 5 minutes
- Hands-On: Training and Evaluating a Stacked Ensemble in Python• 3 minutes
- Cross-Validation Basics: How It Works, Why It Matters, and Why a Single Data Split Can Mislead You• 3 minutes
- How Cross-Validation Makes Model Comparison More Reliable• 3 minutes
- Cross-Validation with cross_val_score: Comparing Ensemble Models• 2 minutes
- Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCV: Optimizing XGBoost• 3 minutes
8 readings• Total 74 minutes
- Understanding Bagging and Random Forests • 8 minutes
- Understanding Hyperparameters in Random Forests• 10 minutes
- Boosting Algorithms Explained: From AdaBoost to XGBoost & LightGBM• 10 minutes
- Tuning Boosting Models: Key Hyperparameters Explained• 10 minutes
- When and How to Use Stacking Effectively• 8 minutes
- Stacking in Practice: Understanding the StackingClassifier Structure• 8 minutes
- Implementing Cross-Validation• 10 minutes
- Cross-Validation and the Bias-Variance Trade-Off in Ensemble Models• 10 minutes
5 assignments• Total 90 minutes
- Ensemble Learning Mastery• 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Bagging and Random Forests• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Boosting and Its Applications• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: StackingClassifier in Action• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Model Evaluation for Ensembles• 15 minutes
4 ungraded labs• Total 240 minutes
- Bagging in Action: Predicting Customer Churn with Random Forest• 60 minutes
- Using Boosting Models to Predict Heart Disease• 60 minutes
- Building and Evaluating a StackingClassifier on Loan Default Data• 60 minutes
- Comparing Ensemble Models with Cross-Validation• 60 minutes
This module will help you master dimensionality reduction techniques to handle high-dimensional data effectively. You'll learn to apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce dimensionality while retaining key features, use t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) to visualize high-dimensional data in 2D/3D space for clustering and pattern recognition, and implement Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) for efficient dimensionality reduction, leveraging its speed and structure-preserving properties.
What's included
8 videos7 readings4 assignments3 ungraded labs
8 videos• Total 16 minutes
- Why Reducing Dimensions Makes Your Models Work Better• 2 minutes
- Implementing PCA Step-by-Step in Python-ASSE• 2 minutes
- How PCA Reduces Dimensions and Visualizes Patterns• 2 minutes
- Why PCA Isn't Always Enough: Enter t-SNE• 2 minutes
- Hands-On with t-SNE: Visualizing Complex Patterns in 2D• 2 minutes
- Why UMAP Is a Game-Changer for Visualizing and Modeling Complex Data• 2 minutes
- Visualizing Digits with UMAP in Python• 2 minutes
- Using UMAP-Transformed Features for Classification• 2 minutes
7 readings• Total 52 minutes
- Why We Use PCA: Dimensionality Reduction & Variance• 8 minutes
- How PCA Works: Eigenvectors, Projection & Explained Variance• 8 minutes
- What Is t-SNE and How Is It Different from PCA?• 6 minutes
- How to Use t-SNE Effectively: Parameters, Best Practices, and Pitfalls• 6 minutes
- Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Why PCA and t-SNE Aren't Always Enough• 6 minutes
- UMAP Demystified: What It Is—and What It Isn't• 8 minutes
- Using UMAP Effectively: Parameters, Use Cases, and Cautions• 10 minutes
4 assignments• Total 75 minutes
- Dimensionality Reduction Mastery• 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: t-SNE Concepts & Use Cases• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: UMAP Essentials• 15 minutes
3 ungraded labs• Total 180 minutes
- Reducing Dimensionality with PCA: From 64 Features to 2• 60 minutes
- Visualizing Handwritten Digit Clusters with t-SNE• 60 minutes
- Exploring UMAP for Visualization and Modeling• 60 minutes
In this module, you'll focus on natural language processing techniques from basic text preprocessing to advanced sentiment analysis. You'll learn how to preprocess text data using tokenization, stopword removal, and stemming/lemmatization with Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and spaCy. Through implementation of text classification using various techniques like Bag-of-Words, TF-IDF, and word embeddings, you'll gain practical experience in NLP tasks. You'll also train sentiment analysis models using Hugging Face Transformers and Scikit-learn.
What's included
13 videos6 readings5 assignments4 ungraded labs
13 videos• Total 27 minutes
- Understanding Natural Language Processing: Why It Matters Today• 2 minutes
- Cleaning Raw Text Step by Step – From Noise to Tokens• 2 minutes
- Stemming vs. Lemmatization – What's the Difference?• 2 minutes
- From Text to Bag-of-Words – Your First Text Vectorizer• 1 minute
- Going Beyond Counts – TF-IDF in Action• 2 minutes
- Extracting Token Embeddings with Hugging Face Transformers• 2 minutes
- Sentence-Level Embeddings and Similarity Scoring• 3 minutes
- How Tokenization Works: Words, Subwords, and Transformers• 2 minutes
- Getting Word Vectors and Token Similarity with spaCy• 2 minutes
- Creating Sentence Embeddings with Hugging Face Transformers• 2 minutes
- TF-IDF Vectorization for Sentiment Data• 2 minutes
- Training and Evaluating a Sentiment Classifier• 1 minute
- Fine-Tuning BERT for Sentiment Analysis with Hugging Face Transformers• 3 minutes
6 readings• Total 47 minutes
- Why Preprocessing Text Is the First Step to Better Models• 8 minutes
- Stemming, Lemmatization, and Tools to Preprocess• 8 minutes
- From Words to Counts – Understanding BoW and TF-IDF• 8 minutes
- From Vectors to Meaning – Embeddings and When to Use Them• 6 minutes
- Tokenizers and Embeddings: How Modern NLP Models Understand Language• 10 minutes
- Text Classification: From Features to Predictions• 7 minutes
5 assignments• Total 90 minutes
- NLP Mastery – From Text to Classification• 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Text Preprocessing Techniques• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Word Representations• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Tokenization & Embeddings • 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Sentiment Classification Workflows• 15 minutes
4 ungraded labs• Total 240 minutes
- Clean Your First NLP Dataset: News Headlines Edition• 60 minutes
- Comparing Sparse and Dense Text Representations in Practice• 60 minutes
- Compare Static vs. Contextual Embeddings for Sentence Similarity• 60 minutes
- Classical vs. Transformer Sentiment Models: A Head-to-Head Comparison• 60 minutes
Reinforcement Learning Description: In this module, you'll explore the fundamentals of reinforcement learning (RL), including Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and reward-based learning. You'll understand the key components of RL systems and implement both policy-based and value-based learning techniques. Through practical examples and hands-on implementation, you'll discover how RL is applied in real-world scenarios like robotics, gaming, and finance.
What's included
7 videos5 readings4 assignments3 ungraded labs
7 videos• Total 17 minutes
- What Makes Reinforcement Learning Different• 2 minutes
- Getting Started with Reinforcement Learning: Agents, Actions, and Rewards• 4 minutes
- Simulating a Reinforcement Learning Loop in Python• 2 minutes
- Understanding Q-Learning and the Bellman Update• 2 minutes
- Implementing Q-Learning in GridWorld• 2 minutes
- Building a Policy Network and Sampling Actions• 2 minutes
- Training with the REINFORCE Algorithm• 3 minutes
5 readings• Total 40 minutes
- Key Concepts of Reinforcement Learning• 8 minutes
- The Markov Decision Process and RL Terminology• 8 minutes
- Value vs Policy: Two Ways to Train an RL Agent• 10 minutes
- How RL Powers Robots, Games, and Financial Decisions• 6 minutes
- Challenges and Frontiers of Real-World RL• 8 minutes
4 assignments• Total 75 minutes
- Reinforcement Learning Mastery• 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: RL Fundamentals• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Q-Learning vs. REINFORCE• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: RL in the Real World• 15 minutes
3 ungraded labs• Total 180 minutes
- Simulate Your First RL Environment with an Agent in GridWorld• 60 minutes
- Train Your First Q-Learning and REINFORCE Agents• 60 minutes
- Simulating a Real-World Decision Task Using RL Concepts• 60 minutes
This module focuses on automated machine learning techniques and model optimization. You'll learn to automate model selection and hyperparameter tuning using Auto-sklearn and GridSearchCV, and optimize models using MLflow for experiment tracking and reproducibility. You'll also explore Bayesian optimization techniques to improve model accuracy. The module concludes with a comprehensive capstone project that combines multiple techniques from throughout the course.
What's included
10 videos6 readings4 assignments1 programming assignment3 ungraded labs
10 videos• Total 20 minutes
- Rapid Model Benchmarking with LazyPredict• 2 minutes
- Prototyping Classification Pipelines with PyCaret• 2 minutes
- Getting Started with Auto-sklearn for Model Selection• 2 minutes
- Feature Engineering and Pipeline Analysis with Auto-sklearn• 2 minutes
- Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCV• 3 minutes
- Efficient Hyperparameter Tuning with RandomizedSearchCV• 3 minutes
- What Is Bayesian Optimization and How Does It Work?• 2 minutes
- Hands-On: Hyperparameter Tuning with Optuna• 2 minutes
- Tracking ML Experiments with MLflow• 2 minutes
- Registering and Managing Models with MLflow• 2 minutes
6 readings• Total 56 minutes
- The Power and Pitfalls of Automated Machine Learning• 10 minutes
- What Are Hyperparameters and Why They Matter• 10 minutes
- Search Strategies and Tips for Effective Hyperparameter Tuning• 10 minutes
- Why Experiment Tracking Matters in ML Projects• 8 minutes
- Introduction to MLflow for Model Tracking and Versioning• 8 minutes
- How to Think Like an ML Engineer During Your Final Project• 10 minutes
4 assignments• Total 75 minutes
- AutoML and Model Optimization Mastery• 30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Automated Model Selection Tools• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Hyperparameter Tuning• 15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Experiment Tracking & Deployment• 15 minutes
1 programming assignment• Total 150 minutes
- Capstone Project: Multi-Domain Machine Learning Challenge: From Classification to Optimization• 150 minutes
3 ungraded labs• Total 180 minutes
- AutoML vs. Manual Modeling: Which One Wins?• 60 minutes
- Grid, Random, or Bayesian? Tune and Compare Your Models• 60 minutes
- Track and Compare Multiple Model Runs with MLflow• 60 minutes
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