Fake News Detection with Model Selection and Hyperparameter Optimization in Python (>97% acc.)
Last Updated on July 18, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Giovanni Valdata
Originally published on Towards AI.
A practical guide on fake news detection with model selection and hyperparameter optimization
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This article aims at describing the model selection and hyperparameter tuning process to perform fake-news detection.
My previous article, in which I explained how the model selection is executed within the field of machine learning on an Amazon Kindle reviews dataset, has been a success among readers. The project presented a limit, though, given the size of the dataset containing roughly 1.000.000 reviews, we couldn’t deploy the algorithm on a good portion of unseen data. It was done on 50.000 records, approximately 5%, because of computing limitations.
In this article, the goal is to identify and tune… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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