Last Updated on August 14, 2019 Machine learning algorithms cannot work with categorical data directly. Categorical data must be converted to numbers. This applies when you are working with a sequence classification type problem and plan on using deep learning methods such as Long Short-Term Memory recurrent neural networks. In this tutorial, you will discover how to convert your input or output sequence data to a one hot encoding for use in sequence classification problems with deep learning in Python. […]

Last Updated on August 25, 2019 Sequence prediction is a problem that involves using historical sequence information to predict the next value or values in the sequence. The sequence may be symbols like letters in a sentence or real values like those in a time series of prices. Sequence prediction may be easiest to understand in the context of time series forecasting as the problem is already generally understood. In this post, you will discover the standard sequence prediction models […]

Last Updated on August 14, 2019 Sequence prediction is different from traditional classification and regression problems. It requires that you take the order of observations into account and that you use models like Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks that have memory and that can learn any temporal dependence between observations. It is critical to apply LSTMs to learn how to use them on sequence prediction problems, and for that, you need a suite of well-defined problems that allow […]