Can a machine learning model ouputs multiple decisions? - python

I've worked with supervised learning models for a while now. I'm quite familiar with regression models (outputting continuous results for a target variable) and classification models (binary or multi-class classifications). However, what happens when I need to train a model for loan approval with the desired outputs as followed:
If the loan is disapproved, the decision will simply be 'disapprove'
If the loan is approved, the decision will be 'approve' and the model also gives suggestion on 'interest rate' and 'loan duration'
Can machine learning models yield such outputs?

Yup! You can do that by having multiple output heads from a neural network. Here is the keras api for that.
Although, you'll need to have the data for the other decisions too.

Yes of course most machine learning algorithms can work with more than 1 output layer. You can either use Keras neural network for creating multiple output predictor models or you can use a decision tree from sklearn. it works with 2 output layers checked

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Late Fusion with SVM and Neural Network

I have a question regarding the process to make a late fusion between SVM (Linear) and a NeuralNetwork (NN),
I have done some research and I found that concatenated the clf.predict_prob of SVM and Model.predic of NN, I should train the new model, however, these scores are for the test data and I cannot figure what to do with the training data.
In other words, I train the new model with the concatenated probability scores of the test data from my two models (SVM and NN) and I test this new model with the same concatenated data, and I'm not really sure of this.
Can you please give me an insight into if this is correct?
After a lot of searching and research I found the solution:
The solution is to train and test a new classifier, in my case it was another Neural Network, with the concatenated probability scores obtained from both data sets (training and test), of the two classifiers, the Linear SVM and the Neural Network.
An example of this of three Linear SVM Late fusion was implemented in python, and can be found in the following link:
https://github.com/JMalhotra7/Learning-image-by-parts-using-early-and-late-fusion-of-auto-encoder-features

Multiple Input - One output Neural Network in small dataset

The dataset i am working on has 7 input features and 4 output class. The length of my dataset is 160. Will neural network be a good choice here? If so, how should i take my inputs to the neural network. Since I have 4 output class, i am going to use Softmax in the final layer.
If neural network makes no sense in such a small dataset, then what are the possible good Machine Learning Algorithms for have a great result in this kind of problems?.
Thanks 😊
What kind of a dataset do you have? I am assuming a tabular dataset.
You can use a neural network if you must. However, for such a small dataset, a neural network isn't usually advisable. You should rather look into the following classifiers:
Decision Tree
Naive Bayes
Multi-class Logistic Regression
Support Vector Machine
Ensemble models (Random Forest and/or Gradient Boosting)

Fine tuning a deep learning model using my own dataset

I have the code to classify the images as Nude or Non nude. It is implemented on deep learning with tensor flow python. The code can be founded in Tensorflow Implementation of Yahoo's Open NSFW Model
I want to add some more images in to the dataset on order to do fine tuning. How can I do fine tuning in this implementation by using another dataset.
Just load their model and initialize its weights with the ones they provide, similar to how they do it here. Assuming that you are familiar with tensorflow, you should then proceed to train that model on your images.
Besides this blog post I'm not aware of any other publications the team has made on their work. This is a bit of an issue as they don't state their training parameters (choice of optimizer, learning rate, etc.). If you want to fine-tune this model you will have to experiment a bit in this regard.
Do they give you the original dataset that the provided model is trained off of? If so, you can easily just add your own dataset to their dataset, and train a completely new model based on the combined dataset.
I wrote more about this "combined" dataset, where you can add more or less data, here.
Good Luck!

Are there some pre-trained LSTM, RNN or ANN models for time-series prediction?

I am trying to solve a time series prediction problem. I tried with ANN and LSTM, played around a lot with the various parameters, but all I could get was 8% better than the persistence prediction.
So I was wondering: since you can save models in keras; are there any pre-trained model (LSTM, RNN, or any other ANN) for time series prediction? If so, how to I get them? Are there in Keras?
I mean it would be super useful if there a website containing pre trained models, so that people wouldn't have to speent too much time training them..
Similarly, another question:
Is it possible to do the following?
1. Suppose I have a dataset now and I use it to train my model. Suppose that in a month, I will have access to another dataset (corresponding to same data or similar data, in the future possibly, but not exclusively). Will it be possible to continue training the model then? It is not the same thing as training it in batches. When you do it in batches you have all the data in one moment.
Is it possible? And how?
I'll answer your last questions first.
Will it be possible to continue training the model then? It is not the same thing as training it in batches. When you do it in batches you have all the data in one moment. Is it possible? And how?
Yes, it is possible. In general, it's called transfer learning. But keep in mind that if two datasets represent very different populations, the network will soon "forget" what it learned on the first run and will optimize to the second one. To do this, you simply start training from a loaded state instead of random initialization and save the model afterwards. It is also recommended to use a smaller learning rate on the second run in order to adapt it gradually to the new data.
are there any pre-trained model (LSTM, RNN, or any other ANN) for time
series prediction? If so, how to I get them? Are there in Keras?
I haven't found exactly a pre-trained model, but a quick search gave me several active GitHub projects that you can just run and get a result for yourself: Time Series Prediction with Machine Learning (LSTM, GRU implementation in tensorflow), LSTM Neural Network for Time Series Prediction (keras and tensorflow), Time series predictions with Keras (keras and theano), Neural-Network-with-Financial-Time-Series-Data (keras and tensorflow). See also this post.
Now you can use BERT or related variants and here you can find all the pre-trained models: https://huggingface.co/transformers/pretrained_models.html
And it is possible to pre-train and fine-tune RNN, and you can refer to this paper: TimeNet: Pre-trained deep recurrent neural network for time series classification.

Python Word2Vec: understand the trained model itself in detail

Let me make my question clearer:
I am using python gensim.models.Word2Vec to train a word embedding model. Based on my understanding, the model training is in essence a machine learning issue---to train a neural network via a prediction task. For example, if I select parameters to train a skip-gram model, then the model is trained by predicting context words from target word. Once the model is well-trained, word vectors are just obtained from the model.
If my understanding is correct, so since in fact it is a machine learning process and the training goal is to perform well in the prediction task, there should be a loss function during training and the model is supposed to make the loss as low as possible. So, how to know the model loss value for a given set of parameters? Or is there any other metrics that we can know to understand the model itself?
Hope I have made my question clear. In a word, I don't want to evaluate the model by its outputs as in the Google test set http://word2vec.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/questions-words.txt, but I want to understand the model itself as a simple machine learning problem during its training process. Would this be possible?

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