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The data scientist should adjust hyperparameters related to the attention mechanism to resolve the problem. The attention mechanism is a technique that allows the decoder to focus on different parts of the input sequence when generating the output sequence. It helps the model cope with long input sequences and improve the translation quality. The Amazon SageMaker seq2seq algorithm supports different types of attention mechanisms, such as dot, general, concat, and mlp. The data scientist can use the hyperparameter attention_type to choose the type of attention mechanism. The data scientist can also use the hyperparameter attention_coverage_type to enable coverage, which is a mechanism that penalizes the model for attending to the same input positions repeatedly. By adjusting these hyperparameters, the data scientist can fine-tune the attention mechanism and reduce the number of false negative predictions by the model.

References:

• Sequence-to-Sequence Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker
• Attention Mechanism - Sockeye Documentation

The best technique to improve the recall of the MLP for the target class of interest is to add class weights to the MLP’s loss function and then retrain. Class weights are a way of assigning different importance to each class in the dataset, such that the model will pay more attention to the classes with higher weights. This can help mitigate the class imbalance problem, where the model tends to favor the majority class and ignore the minority class. By increasing the weight of the target class of interest, the model will try to reduce the false negatives and increase the true positives, which will improve the recall metric. Adding class weights to the loss function is also a quick and easy solution, as it does not require gathering more data, changing the model architecture, or switching to a different algorithm.

References:

• AWS Machine Learning Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Deep Learning with Amazon SageMaker
• AWS Machine Learning Training - Class Imbalance and Weighted Loss Functions

• Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. SageMaker provides a variety of tools and frameworks to support the entire machine learning workflow, from data preparation to model deployment.
• One of the tools that SageMaker offers is the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK, which is a high-level library that simplifies the interaction with SageMaker APIs and services. The SageMaker Python SDK allows you to write code in Python and use popular frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, and more. You can use the SageMaker Python SDK to create and manage SageMaker resources such as notebook instances, training jobs, endpoints, and feature store.
• If you need to continue working on a TensorFlow project using SageMaker for training without Wi-Fi access, the best approach is to download the TensorFlow Docker container used in SageMaker from GitHub to your local environment, and use the SageMaker Python SDK to test the code. This way, you can ensure that your code is compatible with the SageMaker environment and avoid any potential issues when you upload your code to SageMaker and start the training job. You can also use the same code to deploy your model to a SageMaker endpoint when you have Wi-Fi access again.
• To download the TensorFlow Docker container used in SageMaker, you can visit the SageMaker Docker GitHub repository and follow the instructions to build the image locally. You can also use the SageMaker Studio Image Build CLI to automate the process of building and pushing the Docker image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). To use the SageMaker Python SDK to test the code, you can install the SDK on your local machine by following the installation guide. You can also refer to the TensorFlow documentation for more details on how to use the SageMaker Python SDK with TensorFlow.

References:

• SageMaker Docker GitHub repository
• SageMaker Studio Image Build CLI
• SageMaker Python SDK installation guide
• SageMaker Python SDK TensorFlow documentation

 A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier is a suitable architecture for image classification tasks, as it can learn features from the images and reduce the dimensionality of the input. A linear output layer that outputs the probability that an image contains a car is appropriate for a binary classification problem, as it can produce a single scalar value between 0 and 1. A softmax output layer is more suitable for a multi-class classification problem, as it can produce a vector of probabilities that sum up to 1. A deep multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier is not as effective as a CNN for image classification, as it does not exploit the spatial structure of the images and requires a large number of parameters to process the high-dimensional input. References:

• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty Exam Guide
• AWS Training - Machine Learning on AWS
• AWS Whitepaper - An Overview of Machine Learning on AWS