The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book - by Andriy Burkov (Paperback)

About the Book

Master machine learning through clarity, not complexity―in a book engineered to teach with exceptional conciseness.

Book Synopsis

Master machine learning through clarity, not complexity―in a book engineered to teach with exceptional conciseness.

Translated into 11 languages and used in thousands of universities worldwide, this book takes a unique approach: it assumes that your time is valuable. Instead of drowning you in theory or skimming the surface, it delivers a complete education in modern machine learning, focusing on what matters in practice. From fundamental algorithms that form the backbone of many applications, to cutting-edge deep learning and neural networks, you'll understand how these tools work and how to use them.

What sets this book apart is its careful progression through key concepts. You'll start with essential mathematical concepts and gradually progress through the most practically important machine learning algorithms. You'll learn practical skills like feature engineering, regularization, handling imbalanced datasets, ensembles, and model evaluation that help turn theory into working systems.

The book covers not just supervised learning, but also clustering, topic modeling, metric learning, learning to rank, and recommendation systems, giving you a complete toolkit for solving modern machine learning challenges.

This isn't just another theoretical textbook. Every chapter reflects the author's real-world experience, focusing on techniques that work in practice. Whether you're building a recommendation system, analyzing customer data, or working with images and text, you'll find practical guidance here.

This isn't a high-level overview either. The book explores each concept with precisely the right level of technical detail-enough to create those crucial "a-ha!" moments of understanding, but not so much that you get overwhelmed by mathematical notation or theoretical abstractions. It hits that sweet spot where complex ideas click into place naturally, making it valuable for both newcomers looking to build a strong foundation and experienced practitioners seeking to expand their toolkit.

What's Inside

• Supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms and neural networks
• Algorithm and math explained intuitively without losing important detail
• Practical techniques for model building, troubleshooting, and evaluation
• Advanced topics like ensembles, recommender systems, metric learning, and more

About the Reader

The book assumes a basic foundation in college-level mathematics. However, it's entirely self-contained, introducing all necessary mathematical concepts through intuitive explanations. This approach ensures that readers with basic mathematical knowledge can follow along without getting lost in complex equations.

Endorsed by Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, co-author of AIMA, the most popular AI textbook in the world, Aurélien Géron, Senior AI Engineer, author of the bestseller Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, and other industry leaders.

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Review Quotes

Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, co-author of AIMA, the most popular AI textbook in the world: "Burkov has undertaken a very useful but impossibly hard task in reducing all of machine learning to 100 pages. He succeeds well in choosing the topics-both theory and practice-hat will be useful to practitioners, and for the reader who understands that this is the first 100 (or actually 150) pages you will read, not the last, provides a solid introduction to the field."

Aurélien Géron, Senior AI Engineer, author of the bestseller Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: "The breadth of topics the book covers is amazing for just 100 pages (plus few bonus pages!). Burkov doesn't hesitate to go into the math equations: that's one thing that short books usually drop. I really liked how the author explains the core concepts in just a few words. The book can be very useful for newcomers in the field, as well as for old-timers who can gain from such a broad view of the field."

Deepak Agarwal, VP of Artificial Intelligence at LinkedIn: "This book provides a great practical guide to get started and execute on ML within a few days without necessarily knowing much about ML apriori. The first five chapters are enough to get you started and the next few chapters provide you a good feel of more advanced topics to pursue. A wonderful book for engineers who want to incorporate ML in their day-to-day work without necessarily spending an enormous amount of time going through a formal degree program."

Karolis Urbonas, Head of Data Science at Amazon: "This book is a great introduction to machine learning from a world-class practitioner and LinkedIn superstar Andriy Burkov. He managed to find a good balance between the math of the algorithms, intuitive visualizations, and easy-to-read explanations. This book will benefit the newcomers to the field as a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of machine learning, while the experienced professionals will definitely enjoy the practical recommendations from Andriy's rich experience in the field."

Chao Han, VP, Head of R&D at Lucidworks: "I wish such a book existed when I was a statistics graduate student trying to learn about machine learning. There is the right amount of math which demystify the centerpiece of an algorithm with succinct but very clear descriptions. I'm also impressed by the widespread coverage and good choices of important methods as an introductory book (not all machine learning books mention things like learning to rank or metric learning). Highly recommended to STEM major students."

Sujeet Varakhedi, Head of Engineering at eBay: "Whether you want to become a machine learning practitioner or looking for an everyday resource, Andriy's book does a fantastic job of cutting the noise and hitting the tracks and full speed from the first page. It manages to structure all the important concepts from foundations to applications into a relatively quick read and leave the reader engaged at all times."

Vincent Pollet, Head of Research at Nuance: "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book is an excellent read to get started with Machine Learning. In his book, Andriy Burkov distills the ubiquitous material on Machine Learning into concise and well-balanced intuitive, theoretical and practical elements that bring beginners, managers, and practitioners many life hacks."