Advanced Python Topics for Machine Learning
1. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for ML
- Classes & Objects - Structuring ML models
- Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism - Writing reusable ML components
- Dunder Methods (__call__, __getitem__, etc.) - Customizing model behavior
- Abstract Classes & Interfaces - Defining ML model templates
2. Functional Programming in ML
- Lambda Functions - Compact function definitions
- Map, Filter, Reduce - Efficient dataset transformations
- List, Dict, and Set Comprehensions - Optimizing loops
- Generators & Iterators - Handling large datasets efficiently
3. Performance Optimization
- Profiling (cProfile, timeit, line_profiler) - Identifying slow code
- Vectorization - Speeding up loops with NumPy
- Caching (functools.lru_cache) - Reducing redundant computations
- Cython & Numba - Accelerating Python with compiled code
4. Memory Management
- Garbage Collection (gc module) - Controlling memory usage
- Deep Copy vs. Shallow Copy - Managing mutable objects
- Efficient Data Storage - Using Parquet, HDF5, and Pickle for ML datasets
5. Asynchronous & Parallel Computing
- Multithreading & Multiprocessing - Running ML tasks in parallel
- Async/Await - Handling concurrent data fetching
- Joblib & Dask - Parallelizing ML computations
6. Advanced Data Handling
- Pandas Optimization - Reducing memory usage with astype, categoricals
- NumPy Broadcasting - Avoiding loops with array operations
- Sparse Matrices (scipy.sparse) - Handling large, sparse ML datasets
7. Decorators & Metaprogramming
- Function Decorators (@staticmethod, @classmethod) - Simplifying ML workflows
- Class Decorators - Customizing ML model behaviors
- Metaclasses - Creating dynamic ML model classes
8. Regular Expressions (Regex) for NLP
- Text Cleaning & Tokenization - Preprocessing text data
- Pattern Matching - Extracting key features from text
9. Advanced Logging & Debugging
- Logging (logging module) - Tracking ML experiments
- Debugging (pdb, py-spy) - Identifying errors in ML pipelines
10. Working with APIs & Deployment
- FastAPI & Flask - Deploying ML models as APIs
- Web Scraping (requests, BeautifulSoup) - Gathering ML datasets
- Websockets - Streaming ML predictions in real time