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Knowing Feature Importance from Sparse Matrix

I was working with a dataset that had a textual column as well as numerical columns, so I used TFIDF for the textual column and created a sparse matrix, similarly...

Asked on 12/07/2021

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Expected value in Bellman equation

I am reading "reinforcement learning - An introduction" by Sutton and Barto. At pag. 59, there is the Bellman equation for the state-value function $begin{array}{ll}v_{pi}(s) &=mathbb{E}_{pi}[G_t|S_t=s] \&=...

Asked on 12/07/2021

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Can features negatively correlated with the target be used?

In feature selection (for a regression problem), can features that are negatively correlated with the target variable be chosen to predict the target? I don't think negative correlation means...

Asked on 12/07/2021

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Guidelines for selecting an optimizer for training neural networks

I have been using neural networks for a while now. However, one thing that I constantly struggle with is the selection of an optimizer for training the network (using backprop)....

Asked on 12/05/2021

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LightGBM - Why Exclusive Feature Bundling (EFB)?

I'm currently studying GBDT and started reading LightGBM's research paper. In section 4. they explain the Exclusive Feature Bundling algorithm, which aims at reducing the number of...

Asked on 12/05/2021

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Feature scaling worsens performance?

I noticed that feature scaling can destroy completely neural networks performance in some cases. Below are my results that you can reproduce easily. I use a neural network to approximate...

Asked on 12/05/2021

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Determining a correct ML approach

I've little idea about choosing a ML approach for the following problem. It is a classification problem and there are 2 classes that are positive and negative. There are about...

Asked on 12/05/2021

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How to make use of POS tags as useful features for a NaiveBayesClassifier for sentiment analysis?

I'm doing sentiment analysis on a twitter dataset (problem link). I have extracted the POS tags from the tweets and created tfidf vectors from the POS tags...

Asked on 12/05/2021

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Column header in XTS and Data frame in R

I used quandl function extract stock data with object type as xts.a <- Quandl("NSE/ICICIBANK", start_date = "2011-01-01", end_date = "2019-02-21", collapse = "daily", type = "xts",order = "asc")...

Asked on 12/04/2021

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Elbow method for cosine distance

I have clustered vectors by cosine distance using nltk clusterer. If I understand correctly, Y axis for elbow method in euclidian distance would be the sum of every distance (squared)...

Asked on 12/04/2021

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