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Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By : Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer
Book Image

Mastering Azure Machine Learning

By: Christoph Körner, Kaijisse Waaijer

Overview of this book

The increase being seen in data volume today requires distributed systems, powerful algorithms, and scalable cloud infrastructure to compute insights and train and deploy machine learning (ML) models. This book will help you improve your knowledge of building ML models using Azure and end-to-end ML pipelines on the cloud. The book starts with an overview of an end-to-end ML project and a guide on how to choose the right Azure service for different ML tasks. It then focuses on Azure Machine Learning and takes you through the process of data experimentation, data preparation, and feature engineering using Azure Machine Learning and Python. You'll learn advanced feature extraction techniques using natural language processing (NLP), classical ML techniques, and the secrets of both a great recommendation engine and a performant computer vision model using deep learning methods. You'll also explore how to train, optimize, and tune models using Azure Automated Machine Learning and HyperDrive, and perform distributed training on Azure. Then, you'll learn different deployment and monitoring techniques using Azure Kubernetes Services with Azure Machine Learning, along with the basics of MLOps—DevOps for ML to automate your ML process as CI/CD pipeline. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered Azure Machine Learning and be able to confidently design, build and operate scalable ML pipelines in Azure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Machine Learning
4
Section 2: Experimentation and Data Preparation
9
Section 3: Training Machine Learning Models
15
Section 4: Optimization and Deployment of Machine Learning Models
19
Index

Introduction to deep learning

DL has revolutionized the ML domain recently and is constantly outperforming classical statistical approaches, and even humans, in various tasks, such as image classification, object detection, segmentation, speech transcription, text translation, text understanding, sales forecasting, and much more. In contrast to classical models, DL models use many millions of parameters, clever weight sharing, optimization techniques, and implicit feature extraction to outperform all previously hand-crafted feature detectors and ML models when trained with enough data.

In this section, we will help you understand why and when DL models make sense for certain domains and datasets. If you are already an expert in DL, feel free to skip this section and go directly to the more practical sections. However, if you are new to DL, I strongly encourage you to stay for this section in order to understand the practical and business need for larger, more capable models, as...