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There are 5 modules in this course

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.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to: -Implement ensemble methods including bagging, boosting, and stacking to enhance model performance -Apply dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP for data visualization and feature extraction -Process and analyze text data using modern NLP techniques and transformer models -Design and train reinforcement learning agents for autonomous decision-making -Optimize machine learning workflows using AutoML tools and experiment tracking Through practical exercises and a comprehensive capstone project, you'll develop the advanced skills needed to tackle complex machine learning challenges in your professional work.

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 videosβ€’Total 48 minutes
  • Welcome to Advanced Machine Learning Techniquesβ€’2 minutes
  • Why Single Decision Trees Can Overfit: A Visual Primerβ€’3 minutes
  • How Bagging Stabilizes Predictions and Reduces Varianceβ€’2 minutes
  • Random Forest for Classification: Iris Dataset Walkthroughβ€’4 minutes
  • Random Forest for Regression: Predicting House Pricesβ€’3 minutes
  • Why Weak Learners Fail β€” And What Boosting Tries to Fixβ€’2 minutes
  • How Boosting Learns from Mistakes β€” One Model at a Timeβ€’3 minutes
  • Implementing XGBoost and LightGBM for Boosted Classificationβ€’3 minutes
  • What Is Stacking? A Simple Visual Explanationβ€’3 minutes
  • How to Train a Stacking Model (Without Leaking Data)β€’4 minutes
  • Hands-On: Setting Up Base Models for Stacking in Scikit-learnβ€’5 minutes
  • Hands-On: Training and Evaluating a Stacked Ensemble in Pythonβ€’3 minutes
  • Cross-Validation Basics: How It Works, Why It Matters, and Why a Single Data Split Can Mislead Youβ€’3 minutes
  • How Cross-Validation Makes Model Comparison More Reliableβ€’3 minutes
  • Cross-Validation with cross_val_score: Comparing Ensemble Modelsβ€’2 minutes
  • Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCV: Optimizing XGBoostβ€’3 minutes
8 readingsβ€’Total 74 minutes
  • Understanding Bagging and Random Forests β€’8 minutes
  • Understanding Hyperparameters in Random Forestsβ€’10 minutes
  • Boosting Algorithms Explained: From AdaBoost to XGBoost & LightGBMβ€’10 minutes
  • Tuning Boosting Models: Key Hyperparameters Explainedβ€’10 minutes
  • When and How to Use Stacking Effectivelyβ€’8 minutes
  • Stacking in Practice: Understanding the StackingClassifier Structureβ€’8 minutes
  • Implementing Cross-Validationβ€’10 minutes
  • Cross-Validation and the Bias-Variance Trade-Off in Ensemble Modelsβ€’10 minutes
5 assignmentsβ€’Total 90 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Bagging and Random Forestsβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Boosting and Its Applicationsβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: StackingClassifier in Actionβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Model Evaluation for Ensemblesβ€’15 minutes
  • Ensemble Learning Masteryβ€’30 minutes
4 ungraded labsβ€’Total 240 minutes
  • Bagging in Action: Predicting Customer Churn with Random Forestβ€’60 minutes
  • Using Boosting Models to Predict Heart Diseaseβ€’60 minutes
  • Building and Evaluating a StackingClassifier on Loan Default Dataβ€’60 minutes
  • Comparing Ensemble Models with Cross-Validationβ€’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 videosβ€’Total 16 minutes
  • Why Reducing Dimensions Makes Your Models Work Betterβ€’2 minutes
  • Implementing PCA Step-by-Step in Python-ASSEβ€’2 minutes
  • How PCA Reduces Dimensions and Visualizes Patternsβ€’2 minutes
  • Why PCA Isn't Always Enough: Enter t-SNEβ€’2 minutes
  • Hands-On with t-SNE: Visualizing Complex Patterns in 2Dβ€’2 minutes
  • Why UMAP Is a Game-Changer for Visualizing and Modeling Complex Dataβ€’2 minutes
  • Visualizing Digits with UMAP in Pythonβ€’2 minutes
  • Using UMAP-Transformed Features for Classificationβ€’2 minutes
7 readingsβ€’Total 52 minutes
  • Why We Use PCA: Dimensionality Reduction & Varianceβ€’8 minutes
  • How PCA Works: Eigenvectors, Projection & Explained Varianceβ€’8 minutes
  • What Is t-SNE and How Is It Different from PCA?β€’6 minutes
  • How to Use t-SNE Effectively: Parameters, Best Practices, and Pitfallsβ€’6 minutes
  • Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Why PCA and t-SNE Aren't Always Enoughβ€’6 minutes
  • UMAP Demystified: What It Isβ€”and What It Isn'tβ€’8 minutes
  • Using UMAP Effectively: Parameters, Use Cases, and Cautionsβ€’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 75 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)β€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: t-SNE Concepts & Use Casesβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: UMAP Essentialsβ€’15 minutes
  • Dimensionality Reduction Masteryβ€’30 minutes
3 ungraded labsβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Reducing Dimensionality with PCA: From 64 Features to 2β€’60 minutes
  • Visualizing Handwritten Digit Clusters with t-SNEβ€’60 minutes
  • Exploring UMAP for Visualization and Modelingβ€’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 videosβ€’Total 27 minutes
  • Understanding Natural Language Processing: Why It Matters Todayβ€’2 minutes
  • Cleaning Raw Text Step by Step – From Noise to Tokensβ€’2 minutes
  • Stemming vs. Lemmatization – What's the Difference?β€’2 minutes
  • From Text to Bag-of-Words – Your First Text Vectorizerβ€’1 minute
  • Going Beyond Counts – TF-IDF in Actionβ€’2 minutes
  • Extracting Token Embeddings with Hugging Face Transformersβ€’2 minutes
  • Sentence-Level Embeddings and Similarity Scoringβ€’3 minutes
  • How Tokenization Works: Words, Subwords, and Transformersβ€’2 minutes
  • Getting Word Vectors and Token Similarity with spaCyβ€’2 minutes
  • Creating Sentence Embeddings with Hugging Face Transformersβ€’2 minutes
  • TF-IDF Vectorization for Sentiment Dataβ€’2 minutes
  • Training and Evaluating a Sentiment Classifierβ€’1 minute
  • Fine-Tuning BERT for Sentiment Analysis with Hugging Face Transformersβ€’3 minutes
6 readingsβ€’Total 47 minutes
  • Why Preprocessing Text Is the First Step to Better Modelsβ€’8 minutes
  • Stemming, Lemmatization, and Tools to Preprocessβ€’8 minutes
  • From Words to Counts – Understanding BoW and TF-IDFβ€’8 minutes
  • From Vectors to Meaning – Embeddings and When to Use Themβ€’6 minutes
  • Tokenizers and Embeddings: How Modern NLP Models Understand Languageβ€’10 minutes
  • Text Classification: From Features to Predictionsβ€’7 minutes
5 assignmentsβ€’Total 90 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Text Preprocessing Techniquesβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Word Representationsβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Tokenization & Embeddings β€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Sentiment Classification Workflowsβ€’15 minutes
  • NLP Mastery – From Text to Classificationβ€’30 minutes
4 ungraded labsβ€’Total 240 minutes
  • Clean Your First NLP Dataset: News Headlines Editionβ€’60 minutes
  • Comparing Sparse and Dense Text Representations in Practiceβ€’60 minutes
  • Compare Static vs. Contextual Embeddings for Sentence Similarityβ€’60 minutes
  • Classical vs. Transformer Sentiment Models: A Head-to-Head Comparisonβ€’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 videosβ€’Total 17 minutes
  • What Makes Reinforcement Learning Differentβ€’2 minutes
  • Getting Started with Reinforcement Learning: Agents, Actions, and Rewardsβ€’4 minutes
  • Simulating a Reinforcement Learning Loop in Pythonβ€’2 minutes
  • Understanding Q-Learning and the Bellman Updateβ€’2 minutes
  • Implementing Q-Learning in GridWorldβ€’2 minutes
  • Building a Policy Network and Sampling Actionsβ€’2 minutes
  • Training with the REINFORCE Algorithmβ€’3 minutes
5 readingsβ€’Total 40 minutes
  • Key Concepts of Reinforcement Learningβ€’8 minutes
  • The Markov Decision Process and RL Terminologyβ€’8 minutes
  • Value vs Policy: Two Ways to Train an RL Agentβ€’10 minutes
  • How RL Powers Robots, Games, and Financial Decisionsβ€’6 minutes
  • Challenges and Frontiers of Real-World RLβ€’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 75 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: RL Fundamentalsβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Q-Learning vs. REINFORCEβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: RL in the Real Worldβ€’15 minutes
  • Reinforcement Learning Masteryβ€’30 minutes
3 ungraded labsβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • Simulate Your First RL Environment with an Agent in GridWorldβ€’60 minutes
  • Train Your First Q-Learning and REINFORCE Agentsβ€’60 minutes
  • Simulating a Real-World Decision Task Using RL Conceptsβ€’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 videosβ€’Total 20 minutes
  • Rapid Model Benchmarking with LazyPredictβ€’2 minutes
  • Prototyping Classification Pipelines with PyCaretβ€’2 minutes
  • Getting Started with Auto-sklearn for Model Selectionβ€’2 minutes
  • Feature Engineering and Pipeline Analysis with Auto-sklearnβ€’2 minutes
  • Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCVβ€’3 minutes
  • Efficient Hyperparameter Tuning with RandomizedSearchCVβ€’3 minutes
  • What Is Bayesian Optimization and How Does It Work?β€’2 minutes
  • Hands-On: Hyperparameter Tuning with Optunaβ€’2 minutes
  • Tracking ML Experiments with MLflowβ€’2 minutes
  • Registering and Managing Models with MLflowβ€’2 minutes
6 readingsβ€’Total 56 minutes
  • The Power and Pitfalls of Automated Machine Learningβ€’10 minutes
  • What Are Hyperparameters and Why They Matterβ€’10 minutes
  • Search Strategies and Tips for Effective Hyperparameter Tuningβ€’10 minutes
  • Why Experiment Tracking Matters in ML Projectsβ€’8 minutes
  • Introduction to MLflow for Model Tracking and Versioningβ€’8 minutes
  • How to Think Like an ML Engineer During Your Final Projectβ€’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 75 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Automated Model Selection Toolsβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Hyperparameter Tuningβ€’15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Experiment Tracking & Deploymentβ€’15 minutes
  • AutoML and Model Optimization Masteryβ€’30 minutes
1 programming assignmentβ€’Total 150 minutes
  • Capstone Project: Multi-Domain Machine Learning Challenge: From Classification to Optimizationβ€’150 minutes
3 ungraded labsβ€’Total 180 minutes
  • AutoML vs. Manual Modeling: Which One Wins?β€’60 minutes
  • Grid, Random, or Bayesian? Tune and Compare Your Modelsβ€’60 minutes
  • Track and Compare Multiple Model Runs with MLflowβ€’60 minutes

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