Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and PyTorch: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

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

Aurélien Géron is a Machine Learning consultant. A former Googler, he led YouTube's video classification team from 2013 to 2016. He was also a founder and CTO of Wifirst from 2002 to 2012, a leading Wireless ISP in France, and a founder and CTO of Polyconseil in 2001, a telecom consulting firm. Before this he worked as an engineer in a variety of domains: finance (JP Morgan and Société Générale), defense (Canada’s DOD), and healthcare (blood transfusion). He published a few technical books (on C++, WiFi, and Internet architectures), and was a Computer Science lecturer in a French engineering school. A few fun facts: he taught his 3 children to count in binary with their fingers (up to 1023), he studied microbiology and evolutionary genetics before going into software engineering, and his parachute didn’t open on the 2nd jump.