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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By : Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak

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Hands-On Automated Machine Learning

By: Sibanjan Das, Umit Mert Cakmak

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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Introduction to AutoML

Scope of machine learning

What is AutoML?

Why use AutoML and how does it help?

When do you automate ML?

What will you learn?

Overview of AutoML libraries

Summary

Introduction to Machine Learning Using Python

Technical requirements

Machine learning

Linear regression

Important evaluation metrics – regression algorithms

Logistic regression

Important evaluation metrics – classification algorithms

Decision trees

Support Vector Machines

k-Nearest Neighbors

Ensemble methods

Comparing the results of classifiers

Cross-validation

Clustering

Summary

Data Preprocessing

Technical requirements

Data transformation

Feature selection

Feature generation

Summary

Automated Algorithm Selection

Technical requirements

Computational complexity

Differences in training and scoring time

Linearity versus non-linearity

Necessary feature transformations

Supervised ML

Unsupervised AutoML

Summary

Hyperparameter Optimization

Technical requirements

Hyperparameters

Warm start

Bayesian-based hyperparameter tuning

An example system

Summary

Creating AutoML Pipelines

Technical requirements

An introduction to machine learning pipelines

A simple pipeline

FunctionTransformer

A complex pipeline

Summary

Dive into Deep Learning

Technical requirements

Overview of neural networks

A feed-forward neural network using Keras

Autoencoders

Convolutional Neural Networks

Summary

Critical Aspects of ML and Data Science Projects

Machine learning as a search

Trade-offs in machine learning

Engagement model for a typical data science project

The phases of an engagement model

Summary

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Summary

By now, you should have an overall idea of what automated ML is and why you need to be familiar with ML pipelines.

You have reviewed the core components of AutoML systems and also practiced your skills using popular AutoML libraries.

This is definitely not the whole list, and AutoML is an active area of research. You should check out other libraries such as Auto-WEKA, which also uses the latest innovations in Bayesian optimization, and Xcessive, which is a user-friendly tool for creating stacked ensembles.

For now, this is enough of magic! You should start working on your own masterpiece and in the following chapters, you will be building an AutoML system of your own!

Tech Concepts

Programming languages

Tech Tools