Lesson 12.2: Saving Models with Pickle/Joblib
🔹 Why Save Models?
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After training, models can be reused without retraining.
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Allows deployment, sharing, and version control.
🔹 Using Pickle
Pickle is a Python library to serialize (save) and deserialize (load) Python objects, including ML models.
Save a model:
Load a model:
🔹 Using Joblib
Joblib is more efficient than Pickle for large NumPy arrays.
Save a model:
Load a model:
🔹 Advantages
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Avoid retraining models every time.
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Easy to share or deploy.
🔹 Limitations
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Pickle/Joblib files are Python-specific.
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Not secure for loading files from untrusted sources.
✅ Quick Recap:
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Use Pickle or Joblib to save/load trained ML models.
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Pickle → General-purpose serialization.
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Joblib → Efficient for large arrays or models.
