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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By : Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak
Book Image

Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By: Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak

Overview of this book

AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about model parameters, hyperparameters, and configuration space. Let's review them quickly:

  • Model parameters: You can consider these as parameters to be learned during training time
  • Model hyperparameters: These are the parameters that you should define before the training run starts
  • Configuration space parameters: These parameters refer to any other parameter used for the environment that hosts your experiment

You have been introduced to common hyperparameter optimization methods, such as grid search and randomized search. Grid search and randomized search do not use the information produced from previous training runs and this is a disadvantage that Bayesian-based optimization methods address.

Bayesian-based optimization methods leverage the information of previous training runs to decide what will be the hyperparameter values for...