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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)

Convolutional Neural Networks

This section will focus on the CNN's architecture. Though CNN is a topic that might not be covered fully in a single chapter, we will focus on the important elements that a CNN has for you to get started with CNNs easily. During our discussion, we will use the Keras package to create a CNN using the sample MNIST dataset that the package has.

The question that comes to mind when we hear the term CNN is, why CNN? We will try to answer this question with a short explanation.

Why CNN?

We discussed feed-forward neural networks in an earlier section. Though they are powerful, one of their main disadvantages is that an FNN ignores the structure of the input data. All data feed to the network has...