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An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer limited to answering prompts or completing simple writing tasks, AI agents can now reason, plan, and act with increasing independence. From accelerating scientific breakthroughs to supporting creative work, these systems are quickly reshaping industries and everyday life. This book provides the conceptual foundation and practical insights you need to understand—and effectively work with—this emerging technology. Through hundreds of clear graphic illustrations, Maarten Grootendorst and Jay Alammar explain how AI agents are built, how they think, and where they're heading. Designed for professionals, students, and curious learners alike, this guide goes beyond the buzz to reveal what's actually happening inside these systems, why it matters, and how to apply the knowledge in real-world contexts. With its visual storytelling and accessible explanations, An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents is your essential reference for navigating the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Explore the core architecture of AI agents: tools, memory, and planning Understand reasoning LLMs, multimodal models, and multi-agent collaboration Learn advanced methods, including distillation, quantization, and reinforcement learning Evaluate real-world applications, strengths, and limitations of AI agents

Designing AI Interfaces

As artificial intelligence becomes central to modern product design, UX professionals must adapt their toolkits to meet new demands. In Designing AI Interfaces, senior product designer Louise Macfadyen offers a timely, practice-oriented guide for building intuitive, ethical, and effective user experiences with large language models (LLMs) and autonomous AI systems. From content moderation to interruptibility, this book presents actionable design patterns for today's most advanced AI interactions—with clear technical insights to help designers understand how AI systems process inputs, generate outputs, and make decisions on users' behalf. Written specifically for product designers navigating the AI transition, this book provides concrete strategies for managing risk, enabling transparency, and fostering user trust in increasingly agentic systems. Readers will learn how to enable users to steer and shape AI responses in real time, incorporate ethical and UX principles into actionable design strategies, and navigate trade-offs in autonomy and control—all while gaining fluency in key AI concepts to collaborate more effectively with engineering teams. Design effective and ethical interfaces for LLMs and AI agents Apply best-practice patterns for content warnings, permissions, and oversight Gain a mental model for how AI systems reason and act Collaborate confidently with engineering and product teams Evaluate your org's AI maturity and advocate for responsible implementation

Generative AI on Kubernetes

Generative AI is revolutionizing industries, and Kubernetes has fast become the backbone for deploying and managing these resource-intensive workloads. This book serves as a practical, hands-on guide for MLOps engineers, software developers, Kubernetes administrators, and AI professionals ready to unlock AI innovation with the power of cloud native infrastructure. Authors Roland Huß and Daniele Zonca provide a clear road map for training, fine-tuning, deploying, and scaling GenAI models on Kubernetes, addressing challenges like resource optimization, automation, and security along the way. With actionable insights with real-world examples, readers will learn to tackle the opportunities and complexities of managing GenAI applications in production environments. Whether you're experimenting with large-scale language models or facing the nuances of AI deployment at scale, you'll uncover expertise you need to operationalize this exciting technology effectively. Learn to run GenAI models on Kubernetes for efficient scalability Get techniques to train and fine-tune LLMs within Kubernetes environments See how to deploy production-ready AI systems with automation and resource optimization Discover how to monitor and scale GenAI applications to handle real-world demand Uncover the best tools to operationalize your GenAI workloads Learn how to run agent-based and AI-driven applications

ML and Generative AI in the Data Lakehouse

In today's race to harness generative AI, many teams struggle to integrate these advanced tools into their business systems. While platforms like GPT-4 and Google's Gemini are powerful, they aren't always tailored to specific business needs. This book offers a practical guide to building scalable, customized AI solutions using the full potential of data lakehouse architecture. Author Bennie Haelen covers everything from deploying ML and GenAI models in Databricks to optimizing performance with best practices. In this must-read for data professionals, you'll gain the tools to unlock the power of large language models (LLMs) by seamlessly combining data engineering and data science to create impactful solutions. Learn to build, deploy, and monitor ML and GenAI models on a data lakehouse architecture using Databricks Leverage LLMs to extract deeper, actionable insights from your business data residing in lakehouses Discover how to integrate traditional ML and GenAI models for customized, scalable solutions Utilize open source models to control costs while maintaining model performance and efficiency Implement best practices for optimizing ML and GenAI models within the Databricks platform

AI-Native LLM Security

"AI Native LLM Security" is your essential guide to understanding and securing large language models and AI systems. With a focus on implementing practical strategies and leveraging frameworks like OWASP Top 10, this book equips professionals to identify and mitigate risks effectively. By reading this, you'll gain the expertise to confidently manage LLM security challenges. What this Book will help me do Learn about adversarial AI attacks and methods to defend against them. Understand secure-by-design methodologies and their application to LLM systems. Gain insights on implementing MLSecOps practices for robust AI security. Navigate ethical considerations and legal aspects of AI security. Secure AI development life cycles with practical strategies and standards. Author(s) The authors, Vaibhav Malik, Ken Huang, and Adam Dawson, are experts in AI security with collective experience covering cybersecurity, AI development, and security frameworks. Their dedication to advancing trustworthy AI ensures that this book is both technically comprehensive and approachable. Who is it for? This book is perfect for cybersecurity experts, AI developers, and technology managers aiming to secure and manage AI systems. Readers should have a basic understanding of AI and security concepts. If you're a security architect, ML engineer, DevOps professional, or a leader overseeing AI initiatives, this book will help you address LLM security effectively for your field.

Building Agentic AI: Workflows, Fine-Tuning, Optimization, and Deployment

Transform Your Business with Intelligent AI to Drive Outcomes Building reactive AI applications and chatbots is no longer enough. The competitive advantage belongs to those who can build AI that can respond, reason, plan, and execute. Building Agentic AI: Workflows, Fine-Tuning, Optimization, and Deployment takes you beyond basic chatbots to create fully functional, autonomous agents that automate real workflows, enhance human decision-making, and drive measurable business outcomes across high-impact domains like customer support, finance, and research. Whether you're a developer deploying your first model, a data scientist exploring multi-agent systems and distilled LLMs, or a product manager integrating AI workflows and embedding models, this practical handbook provides tried and tested blueprints for building production-ready systems. Harness the power of reasoning models for applications like computer use, multimodal systems to work with all kinds of data, and fine-tuning techniques to get the most out of AI. Learn to test, monitor, and optimize agentic systems to keep them reliable and cost-effective at enterprise scale. Master the complete agentic AI pipeline Design adaptive AI agents with memory, tool use, and collaborative reasoning capabilities Build robust RAG workflows using embeddings, vector databases, and LangGraph state management Implement comprehensive evaluation frameworks beyond accuracy, including precision, recall, and latency metrics Deploy multimodal AI systems that seamlessly integrate text, vision, audio, and code generation Optimize models for production through fine-tuning, quantization, and speculative decoding techniques Navigate the bleeding edge of reasoning LLMs and computer-use capabilities Balance cost, speed, accuracy, and privacy in real-world deployment scenarios Create hybrid architectures that combine multiple agents for complex enterprise applications Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store

Get up to speed on a new unified approach to building machine learning (ML) systems with a feature store. Using this practical book, data scientists and ML engineers will learn in detail how to develop and operate batch, real-time, and agentic ML systems. Author Jim Dowling introduces fundamental principles and practices for developing, testing, and operating ML and AI systems at scale. You'll see how any AI system can be decomposed into independent feature, training, and inference pipelines connected by a shared data layer. Through example ML systems, you'll tackle the hardest part of ML systems--the data, learning how to transform data into features and embeddings, and how to design a data model for AI. Develop batch ML systems at any scale Develop real-time ML systems by shifting left or shifting right feature computation Develop agentic ML systems that use LLMs, tools, and retrieval-augmented generation Understand and apply MLOps principles when developing and operating ML systems

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch

The potential of machine learning today is extraordinary, yet many aspiring developers and tech professionals find themselves daunted by its complexity. Whether you're looking to enhance your skill set and apply machine learning to real-world projects or are simply curious about how AI systems function, this book is your jumping-off place. With an approachable yet deeply informative style, author Aurélien Géron delivers the ultimate introductory guide to machine learning and deep learning. Drawing on the Hugging Face ecosystem, with a focus on clear explanations and real-world examples, the book takes you through cutting-edge tools like Scikit-Learn and PyTorch—from basic regression techniques to advanced neural networks. Whether you're a student, professional, or hobbyist, you'll gain the skills to build intelligent systems. Understand ML basics, including concepts like overfitting and hyperparameter tuning Complete an end-to-end ML project using scikit-Learn, covering everything from data exploration to model evaluation Learn techniques for unsupervised learning, such as clustering and anomaly detection Build advanced architectures like transformers and diffusion models with PyTorch Harness the power of pretrained models—including LLMs—and learn to fine-tune them Train autonomous agents using reinforcement learning

Generative AI for Software Developers

Master Generative AI in software development with hands-on guidance, from coding and debugging to testing and deployment, using GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI APIs to build scalable, AI-powered applications Key Features Hands-on guidance for mastering AI-powered coding, debugging, and deployment with real-world examples Comprehensive coverage of GenAI concepts, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and SDLC integration Practical strategies for architecting and scaling production-ready AI-driven applications Book Description Generative AI for Software Developers is your practical guide to mastering AI-powered development and staying ahead in a fast-changing industry. Through a structured, hands-on approach, this book helps you understand, implement, and optimize Generative AI in modern software engineering. From AI-assisted coding, debugging, and documentation to testing, deployment, and system design, it equips you with the skills to integrate AI seamlessly into your workflows. You’ll work with tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI APIs while learning strategies for prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and building scalable AI-powered applications. Featuring real-world use cases, best practices, and expert insights, this book bridges the gap between experimenting with AI and production deployment. Whether you’re an aspiring AI developer, experienced engineer, or solutions architect, this guide gives you the clarity, confidence, and tactical knowledge to thrive in the GenAI-driven future of software development. Armed with these insights, you’ll be ready to build, integrate, and scale intelligent solutions that enhance every stage of the software development lifecycle. What you will learn Build a secure GenAI application with expert guidance Understand the fundamentals of GenAI and its applications in software engineering Automate coding tasks with tools like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI APIs Apply AI for debugging, testing, documentation, and deployment workflows Get to grips with prompt engineering and fine-tuning techniques to optimize AI outputs Implement best practices for architecting and scaling AI-powered applications Build end-to-end GenAI projects, moving from experimentation to production Who this book is for This book is for software developers, engineers, architects, and tech professionals who want to understand the core concepts of Generative AI and its real-world applications, master AI-driven development workflows to improve efficiency and code quality, and leverage tools like GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI APIs to automate coding tasks.

Generative AI Design Patterns

Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're likely to encounter when building applications using LLMs, such as hallucinations, nondeterministic responses, and knowledge cutoffs. This book codifies research and real-world experience into advice you can incorporate into your projects. Each pattern describes a problem, shows a proven way to solve it with a fully coded example, and discusses trade-offs. Design around the limitations of LLMs Ensure that generated content follows a specific style, tone, or format Maximize creativity while balancing different types of risk Build agents that plan, self-correct, take action, and collaborate with other agents Compose patterns into agentic applications for a variety of use cases

Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition

The bestselling book on Python deep learning, now covering generative AI, Keras 3, PyTorch, and JAX! Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition puts the power of deep learning in your hands. This new edition includes the latest Keras and TensorFlow features, generative AI models, and added coverage of PyTorch and JAX. Learn directly from the creator of Keras and step confidently into the world of deep learning with Python. In Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition you’ll discover: Deep learning from first principles The latest features of Keras 3 A primer on JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow Image classification and image segmentation Time series forecasting Large Language models Text classification and machine translation Text and image generation—build your own GPT and diffusion models! Scaling and tuning models With over 100,000 copies sold, Deep Learning with Python makes it possible for developers, data scientists, and machine learning enthusiasts to put deep learning into action. In this expanded and updated third edition, Keras creator François Chollet offers insights for both novice and experienced machine learning practitioners. You'll master state-of-the-art deep learning tools and techniques, from the latest features of Keras 3 to building AI models that can generate text and images. About the Technology In less than a decade, deep learning has changed the world—twice. First, Python-based libraries like Keras, TensorFlow, and PyTorch elevated neural networks from lab experiments to high-performance production systems deployed at scale. And now, through Large Language Models and other generative AI tools, deep learning is again transforming business and society. In this new edition, Keras creator François Chollet invites you into this amazing subject in the fluid, mentoring style of a true insider. About the Book Deep Learning with Python, Third Edition makes the concepts behind deep learning and generative AI understandable and approachable. This complete rewrite of the bestselling original includes fresh chapters on transformers, building your own GPT-like LLM, and generating images with diffusion models. Each chapter introduces practical projects and code examples that build your understanding of deep learning, layer by layer. What's Inside Hands-on, code-first learning Comprehensive, from basics to generative AI Intuitive and easy math explanations Examples in Keras, PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow About the Reader For readers with intermediate Python skills. No previous experience with machine learning or linear algebra required. About the Authors François Chollet is the co-founder of Ndea and the creator of Keras. Matthew Watson is a software engineer at Google working on Gemini and a core maintainer of Keras. Quotes Perfect for anyone interested in learning by doing from one of the industry greats. - Anthony Goldbloom, Founder of Kaggle A sharp, deeply practical guide that teaches you how to think from first principles to build models that actually work. - Santiago Valdarrama, Founder of ml.school The most up-to-date and complete guide to deep learning you’ll find today! - Aran Komatsuzaki, EleutherAI Masterfully conveys the true essence of neural networks. A rare case in recent years of outstanding technical writing. - Salvatore Sanfilippo, Creator of Redis

AI Agents in Practice

Discover how to build autonomous AI agents tailored for real-world tasks with 'AI Agents in Practice.' This book guides you through creating and deploying AI systems that go beyond chatbots to solve complex problems, using leading frameworks and practical design patterns. What this Book will help me do Understand and implement core components of AI agents, such as memory, tool integration, and context management. Develop production-ready AI agents for diverse applications using frameworks like LangChain. Design and implement multi-agent systems to enable advanced collaboration and problem-solving. Apply ethical and responsible AI techniques, including monitoring and human oversight, in agent development. Optimize performance and scalability of AI agents for production use cases. Author(s) Valentina Alto is an accomplished AI engineer with years of experience in AI systems design and implementation. Valentina specializes in developing practical solutions utilizing large language models and contemporary frameworks for real-world applications. Through her writing, she conveys complex ideas in an accessible manner, and her goal is to empower AI developers and enthusiasts with the skills to create meaningful solutions. Who is it for? This book is perfect for AI engineers, data scientists, and software developers ready to go beyond foundational knowledge of large language models to implement advanced AI agents. It caters to professionals looking to build scalable solutions and those interested in ethical considerations of AI usage. Readers with a background in machine learning and Python will benefit most from the technical insights provided.

Generative AI for Software Development

In just a few short years, AI has transformed software development, and snazzy new tools continue to arrive, with no let-up in sight. How, as a software engineer, product builder, or CTO, do you keep up? This practical book is the result of Sergio Pereira's mission to test every AI tool he could find and provide practitioners with much-needed guidance through the commotion. Generative AI for Software Development focuses on AI tool comparisons, practical workflows, and real-world case studies, with each chapter encompassing critical evaluations of the tools, their use cases, and their limitations. While product reviews are always relevant, the book goes further and delivers to readers a coherent framework for evaluating the tools and workflows of the future, which will continue to complicate the work of software development. Learn how code generation and autocompletion assistants are reshaping the developer experience Discover a consistent method for rating code-generation tools based on real-world coding challenges Explore the GenAI tools transforming UI/UX design and frontend development Learn how AI is streamlining code reviews and bug detection Review tools that are simplifying software testing and QA Explore AI for documentation and technical writing Understand how modern LLMs have redefined what chatbots can do

Building AI Agents with LLMs, RAG, and Knowledge Graphs

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to creating cutting-edge AI agents combining advanced technologies such as LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and knowledge graphs. By reading this book, you'll gain a deep understanding of how to design and build AI agents capable of real-world problem solving, reasoning, and action execution. What this Book will help me do Understand the foundations of LLMs, RAG, and knowledge graphs, and how they can be combined to build effective AI agents. Learn techniques to enhance factual accuracy and grounding through RAG pipelines and knowledge graphs. Develop AI agents that integrate planning, reasoning, and live tool usage to solve complex problems. Master the use of Python and popular AI libraries to build scalable AI agent applications. Acquire strategies for deploying and monitoring AI agents in production for reliable operation. Author(s) This book is written by Salvatore Raieli and Gabriele Iuculano, accomplished experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Both authors bring extensive professional experience from their work in AI-related fields, particularly in applying innovative AI methods to solve challenging problems. Through their clear and approachable writing style, they aim to make advanced AI concepts accessible to readers at various levels. Who is it for? This book is ideally suited for data scientists, AI practitioners, and technology enthusiasts seeking to deepen their knowledge in building intelligent AI agents. It is perfect for those who already have a foundational understanding of Python and general artificial intelligence concepts. Experienced professionals looking to explore state-of-the-art AI solutions, as well as beginners eager to advance their technical skills, will find this book invaluable.

Generative AI

This book is essential for anyone eager to understand the groundbreaking advancements in generative AI and its transformative effects across industries, making it a valuable resource for both professional growth and creative inspiration. Generative AI: Disruptive Technologies for Innovative Applications delves into the exciting and rapidly evolving world of generative artificial intelligence and its profound impact on various industries and domains. This comprehensive volume brings together leading experts and researchers to explore the cutting-edge advancements, applications, and implications of generative AI technologies. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of generative AI, which encompasses a range of techniques such as generative adversarial networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer models like GPT-3. It examines how these technologies enable machines to generate content, including text, images, and audio, that closely mimics human creativity and intelligence. Readers will gain valuable insights into the fundamentals of generative AI, innovative applications, ethical and social considerations, interdisciplinary insights, and future directions of this invaluable emerging technology. Generative AI: Disruptive Technologies for Innovative Applications is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in the transformative potential of generative AI in revolutionizing industries, unleashing creativity, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in artificial intelligence. Audience AI researchers, industry professionals, data scientists, machine learning experts, students, policymakers, and entrepreneurs interested in the innovative field of generative AI.

Building AI-Powered Products

Drawing from her experience at Google and Meta, Dr. Marily Nika delivers the definitive guide for product managers building AI and GenAI powered products. Packed with smart strategies, actionable tools, and real-world examples, this book breaks down the complex world of AI agents and generative AI products into a playbook for driving innovation to help product leaders bridge the gap between niche AI and GenAI technologies and user pain points. Whether you're already leading product teams or are an aspiring product manager, and regardless of your prior knowledge with AI, this guide will empower you to confidently navigate every stage of the AI product lifecycle. Confidently manage AI product development with tools, frameworks, strategic insights, and real-world examples from Google, Meta, OpenAI, and more Lead product orgs to solve real problems via agentic AI and GenAI capabilities Gain AI Awareness and technical fluency to work with AI models, LLMs, and the algorithms that power them; get cross-functional alignment; make strategic trade-offs; and set OKRs

Learning LangChain

If you're looking to build production-ready AI applications that can reason and retrieve external data for context-awareness, you'll need to master--;a popular development framework and platform for building, running, and managing agentic applications. LangChain is used by several leading companies, including Zapier, Replit, Databricks, and many more. This guide is an indispensable resource for developers who understand Python or JavaScript but are beginners eager to harness the power of AI. Authors Mayo Oshin and Nuno Campos demystify the use of LangChain through practical insights and in-depth tutorials. Starting with basic concepts, this book shows you step-by-step how to build a production-ready AI agent that uses your data. Harness the power of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enhance the accuracy of LLMs using external up-to-date data Develop and deploy AI applications that interact intelligently and contextually with users Make use of the powerful agent architecture with LangGraph Integrate and manage third-party APIs and tools to extend the functionality of your AI applications Monitor, test, and evaluate your AI applications to improve performance Understand the foundations of LLM app development and how they can be used with LangChain

AI Agents in Action

Create LLM-powered autonomous agents and intelligent assistants tailored to your business and personal needs. From script-free customer service chatbots to fully independent agents operating seamlessly in the background, AI-powered assistants represent a breakthrough in machine intelligence. In AI Agents in Action, you'll master a proven framework for developing practical agents that handle real-world business and personal tasks. Author Micheal Lanham combines cutting-edge academic research with hands-on experience to help you: Understand and implement AI agent behavior patterns Design and deploy production-ready intelligent agents Leverage the OpenAI Assistants API and complementary tools Implement robust knowledge management and memory systems Create self-improving agents with feedback loops Orchestrate collaborative multi-agent systems Enhance agents with speech and vision capabilities You won't find toy examples or fragile assistants that require constant supervision. AI Agents in Action teaches you to build trustworthy AI capable of handling high-stakes negotiations. You'll master prompt engineering to create agents with distinct personas and profiles, and develop multi-agent collaborations that thrive in unpredictable environments. Beyond just learning a new technology, you'll discover a transformative approach to problem-solving. About the Technology Most production AI systems require many orchestrated interactions between the user, AI models, and a wide variety of data sources. AI agents capture and organize these interactions into autonomous components that can process information, make decisions, and learn from interactions behind the scenes. This book will show you how to create AI agents and connect them together into powerful multi-agent systems. About the Book In AI Agents in Action, you’ll learn how to build production-ready assistants, multi-agent systems, and behavioral agents. You’ll master the essential parts of an agent, including retrieval-augmented knowledge and memory, while you create multi-agent applications that can use software tools, plan tasks autonomously, and learn from experience. As you explore the many interesting examples, you’ll work with state-of-the-art tools like OpenAI Assistants API, GPT Nexus, LangChain, Prompt Flow, AutoGen, and CrewAI. What's Inside Knowledge management and memory systems Feedback loops for continuous agent learning Collaborative multi-agent systems Speech and computer vision About the Reader For intermediate Python programmers. About the Author Micheal Lanham is a software and technology innovator with over 20 years of industry experience. He has authored books on deep learning, including Manning’s Evolutionary Deep Learning. Quotes This is about to become the hottest area of applied AI. Get a head start with this book! - Richard Davies, author of Prompt Engineering in Practice Couldn’t put this book down! It’s so comprehensive and clear that I felt like I was learning from a master teacher. - Radhika Kanubaddhi, Amazon An enlightening journey! This book transformed my questions into answers. - Jose San Leandro, ACM-SL Expertly guides through creating agent profiles, using tools, memory, planning, and multi-agent systems. Couldn’t be more timely! - Grigory Sapunov author of JAX in Action

Machine Learning for Tabular Data

Business runs on tabular data in databases, spreadsheets, and logs. Crunch that data using deep learning, gradient boosting, and other machine learning techniques. Machine Learning for Tabular Data teaches you to train insightful machine learning models on common tabular business data sources such as spreadsheets, databases, and logs. You’ll discover how to use XGBoost and LightGBM on tabular data, optimize deep learning libraries like TensorFlow and PyTorch for tabular data, and use cloud tools like Vertex AI to create an automated MLOps pipeline. Machine Learning for Tabular Data will teach you how to: Pick the right machine learning approach for your data Apply deep learning to tabular data Deploy tabular machine learning locally and in the cloud Pipelines to automatically train and maintain a model Machine Learning for Tabular Data covers classic machine learning techniques like gradient boosting, and more contemporary deep learning approaches. By the time you’re finished, you’ll be equipped with the skills to apply machine learning to the kinds of data you work with every day. About the Technology Machine learning can accelerate everyday business chores like account reconciliation, demand forecasting, and customer service automation—not to mention more exotic challenges like fraud detection, predictive maintenance, and personalized marketing. This book shows you how to unlock the vital information stored in spreadsheets, ledgers, databases and other tabular data sources using gradient boosting, deep learning, and generative AI. About the Book Machine Learning for Tabular Data delivers practical ML techniques to upgrade every stage of the business data analysis pipeline. In it, you’ll explore examples like using XGBoost and Keras to predict short-term rental prices, deploying a local ML model with Python and Flask, and streamlining workflows using large language models (LLMs). Along the way, you’ll learn to make your models both more powerful and more explainable. What's Inside Master XGBoost Apply deep learning to tabular data Deploy models locally and in the cloud Build pipelines to train and maintain models About the Reader For readers experienced with Python and the basics of machine learning. About the Authors Mark Ryan is the AI Lead of the Developer Knowledge Platform at Google. A three-time Kaggle Grandmaster, Luca Massaron is a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in machine learning and AI. He has published 17 other books. Quotes

Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth

Learn how machine learning algorithms work from the ground up so you can effectively troubleshoot your models and improve their performance. Fully understanding how machine learning algorithms function is essential for any serious ML engineer. In Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth you’ll explore practical implementations of dozens of ML algorithms including: Monte Carlo Stock Price Simulation Image Denoising using Mean-Field Variational Inference EM algorithm for Hidden Markov Models Imbalanced Learning, Active Learning and Ensemble Learning Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Tuning Dirichlet Process K-Means for Clustering Applications Stock Clusters based on Inverse Covariance Estimation Energy Minimization using Simulated Annealing Image Search based on ResNet Convolutional Neural Network Anomaly Detection in Time-Series using Variational Autoencoders Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth dives into the design and underlying principles of some of the most exciting machine learning (ML) algorithms in the world today. With a particular emphasis on probabilistic algorithms, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Bayesian inference and deep learning. You’ll also explore the core data structures and algorithmic paradigms for machine learning. Each algorithm is fully explored with both math and practical implementations so you can see how they work and how they’re put into action. About the Technology Learn how machine learning algorithms work from the ground up so you can effectively troubleshoot your models and improve their performance. This book guides you from the core mathematical foundations of the most important ML algorithms to their Python implementations, with a particular focus on probability-based methods. About the Book Machine Learning Algorithms in Depth dissects and explains dozens of algorithms across a variety of applications, including finance, computer vision, and NLP. Each algorithm is mathematically derived, followed by its hands-on Python implementation along with insightful code annotations and informative graphics. You’ll especially appreciate author Vadim Smolyakov’s clear interpretations of Bayesian algorithms for Monte Carlo and Markov models. What's Inside Monte Carlo stock price simulation EM algorithm for hidden Markov models Imbalanced learning, active learning, and ensemble learning Bayesian optimization for hyperparameter tuning Anomaly detection in time-series About the Reader For machine learning practitioners familiar with linear algebra, probability, and basic calculus. About the Author Vadim Smolyakov is a data scientist in the Enterprise & Security DI R&D team at Microsoft. Quotes I love this book! It shows you how to implement common ML algorithms in plain Python with only the essential libraries, so you can see how the computation and math works in practice. - Junpeng Lao, Senior Data Scientist at Google I highly recommend this book. In the era of ChatGPT real knowledge of algorithms is invaluable. - Vatsal Desai, InfoDesk Explains algorithms so well that even a novice can digest it. - Harsh Raval, Zymr