Learning Car Learning: Introduction As Well As Linear Regression

In an before post, I had talked virtually how I went virtually learning virtually automobile learning together with deep learning (ML/DL), together with said that I would write brief summaries of the introductory ML/DL concepts I learned during that process. I volition create part 1 now, otherwise presently I volition start to uncovering the introductory concepts obvious together with footling (which they are not). So for all it is worth, together with generally to proceed my encephalon organized, hither is the showtime postal service on the introductory ML/DL concepts.

Supervised together with Unsupervised Learning Algorithms

Machine learning algorithms are divided broadly into ii parts: supervised together with unsupervised learning algorithms.

In supervised learning, at that topographic point is a preparation stage where a supervisor trains the algorithm with examples of how the output relates to the input. Two basic examples of supervised learning are regression, which uses a continuous extrapolation business office for output prediction, together with classification, which outputs a classification into buckets/groups. The residuum of this postal service delves into supervised learning via regression. Supervised learning via classification volition endure the theme of my side yesteryear side learning automobile learning post.

(Here is a brief give-and-take on unsupervised learning for completeness sake. Unsupervised learning does non lead maintain a supervised preparation stage using labeled preparation data. Even without whatever labeled preparation information to compare the output with, nosotros tin hit notice yet create useful work: nosotros tin hit notice larn roughly relations with the input information together with classify/cluster the input information into groups. So clustering algorithms are a basic instance of unsupervised learning category. I won't endure mentioning unsupervised learning for the residuum of the post, together with belike a expert piece inwards the future.)

In the residuum of this post, I follow/summarize from Andrew Ng's automobile learning course of teaching at Coursera. (Here is Ng's course of teaching fabric for CS 229 at Stanford.) There are also good course of teaching notes here, together with I summarize fifty-fifty to a greater extent than briefly than those notes to highlight the big ideas.

Linear Regression

Linear regression is a basic supervised learning job for regression. A canonical application for linear regression is learning household pricing via using existing household pricing information yesteryear inferring how the sales cost of the houses relates to the give away of rooms, square-footage, together with the location of the houses.

This is how linear regression works. The algorithm outputs a function: hypothesis, denoted every bit h. For example, $h= \theta_0 + \theta_1 * x$. The output, y, is given yesteryear h(x), which is a linear business office of x, the input. The parameters $\theta_0$ together with $\theta_1$ are calculated yesteryear the linear regression algorithm using gradient descent.

To calculate $\theta_0$ together with $\theta_1$, linear regression uses the cost function approach.  To this end, nosotros rewrite the job every bit a minimization of error/cost problem. We define cost "$J$" every bit $(h_θ (x)-y)^2$, together with figure out which assignment to θ (i.e., $\theta_0$ together with $\theta_1$, also known every bit the model parameters) gives the minimum error/cost for the preparation data. $J (θ_0, θ_1) = 1/2m * \sum_{i=1}^m (h_θ (x_i)-y_i)^2$

Gradient Descent

OK, directly that nosotros lead maintain the cost business office $J(\theta_0, \theta_1)$, how create nosotros acquire virtually calculating the $\theta$ parameters that minimize the error/cost for the preparation data? What technique create nosotros use? We permit the error/cost business office (also known every bit "loss") endure our guide, together with perform a locally (myopically) guided walk inwards the parameter infinite towards the direction where the error/cost business office is reduced. In other words, nosotros descent on the slope of the error/cost function.


More specifically, nosotros await at the slope of the cost business office together with descend the slope with mensuration sizes of $\alpha$. Iterating similar this, nosotros eventually(?) hitting a local minima, which for a convex cost function/shape is also the global minima.

More concretely, to compute $\theta_0, \theta_1$ that minimizes cost business office $J (\theta_0, \theta_1)$, nosotros create the next until convergence: $\theta_j = \theta_j - \alpha \frac{\partial}{\partial \theta_j} J (\theta_0, \theta_1)$.

Here is an instance with $\theta_0, \theta_1$. The cost business office $J$ is a circle/oval. (If at that topographic point were solely $\theta_1$, $J$ would endure a line. If at that topographic point were $\theta_k$, for $k>3$, $J$ would endure difficult to draw.)


Here $\alpha$ is the learning rate. While calculating $\theta_j$, nosotros update simultaneously for $\theta_0$ together with $\theta_1$.


Too pocket-size an $\alpha$ would hateful that convergence takes a long time. Too big an $\alpha$ may atomic number 82 to missing convergence together with fifty-fifty divergence. To ready a suitable value for $\alpha$, nosotros tin hit notice explore together with position an $\alpha$ that is expert enough. To create this nosotros tin hit notice endeavour a hit of alpha values 0.001, 0.003, 0.01, 0.03. 0.1, 0.3, together with plot $J(\theta)$ vs give away of iterations for each version of $\alpha$. What tin hit notice I say, ML is a rattling empirical champaign of study.

Linear regression with multiple features

Lets speak virtually how to generalize linear regression from the linear regression with 1 characteristic nosotros considered above. Here nosotros brand $\theta$ together with $x$ into a vector together with the algorithm is the same every bit that of linear regression. Here is the generalized algorithm:


If you lot lead maintain a job with multiple features, you lot should brand certain those features lead maintain a similar scale. If not, the circle (or to a greater extent than accurately the multidimensional spherical shape) could endure dominated yesteryear 1 characteristic $\theta_j$, together with would lead maintain a rattling slanted/elongated oval shape rather than a prissy circle. And that volition preclude the slope descent to converge apace to the middle of the target every bit it volition pass every bit good much fourth dimension walking through the elongated oval.

For characteristic scaling nosotros tin hit notice employ hateful normalization: Take a characteristic $x_i$, Replace it yesteryear ($x_i$ - mean)/max. Now your values all lead maintain an average of virtually 0.

Conclusion

This was generally basic job plumbing fixtures yesteryear relying on case together with error. But this a primitive on which the residuum of the Ml/DL (machine learning / deep learning) piece of work builds on. In the side yesteryear side postal service on learning automobile learning series, nosotros volition await at supervised classification problems together with hence job that to start learning virtually neural networks together with deep learning.

Related links

Here are the links to the introductory ML/DL concepts series:

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