Book Image

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)

Machine learning

Machine learning dates back to centuries. It was born from the theory that computers can learn without being programmed to perform specific tasks. The iterative aspect of ML is essential as the machines need to adapt themselves to new data always. They need to learn from the historical data, optimize for better computations, and also generalize themselves to provide proper results.

We all are aware of rule-based systems, where we have a set of predefined conditions for a machine to execute and provide the results. How great will it be when machines learn these patterns by themselves, deliver the results, and explain the rules that it discovered; this is ML. It is a broader term used for various methods and algorithms that are used by machines to learn from the data. As a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), the ML algorithms are quite often used to discover...