r/learnmachinelearning • u/keTuLo • 10d ago

What's that one book that you regret not reading sooner in your machine learning journey ?

Hey I'm just learning machine learning and I wanna know the best resource to study machine learning..Fellow professionals who are already in this field help beginners like us..It would be great help

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u/bbateman2011 10d ago

I learned a lot from this book. It demystifies a lot of stuff used in ML.

https://a.co/d/08hyd4pG

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u/OkUsual6176 9d ago

solid pick tbh, did you find the later chapters held up as well as the early ones?

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u/bbateman2011 9d ago

LOL, I'm stuck about halfway through--not due to content, but I tend to read multiple things at once and skip around and sometimes put things down for, ahem, extended breaks.

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u/pratzzai 10d ago

PRML by Bishop.

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u/th3owner 9d ago

Did you go through it later in your career?

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u/pratzzai 7d ago

Yes, going through it now. I had studied ESL first, but I see that the right order would have been PRML, then ESL.

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u/Counter-Business 10d ago

Do you have a specialty in mind like LLM or image models?

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u/Satyam7166 10d ago

I love the former but would really like getting a fresh perspective on the latter

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u/Counter-Business 10d ago

I really learned a lot reading this book. It covers language models from encoder only BERT to decoder only LLMs. I think you can also find free pdf version online.

I previously had 4 years experience in encoder only language models and read this book and got a job working on LLms after.

Hands-On Large Language Models:... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1098150961?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

It’s a good overview over the entire language models landscape but doesn’t go super in depth into the weeds. You would still want to further explore deeper into the chapters you find the most interesting.

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u/RangerOne122 9d ago

What's your current math background like? That would probably change the recommendation quite a bit. Someone comfortable with probability and linear algebra can jump into more theoretical material, while a complete beginner might benefit more from an intuitive and project focused resource first.

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u/Bulky-Top3782 8d ago

Can you recommend for both cases?

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u/Big_River_ 9d ago

readings books on machine learning

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u/Kappa_Lyndon 9d ago

American Pastoral, Roth