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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)

Automated Algorithm Selection

This chapter offers a glimpse into the vast landscape of machine learning (ML) algorithms. A bird's-eye view will show you the kind of learning problems that you can tackle with ML, which you have already learned. Let's briefly review them.

If examples/observations in your dataset have associated labels, then these labels can provide guidance to algorithms during model training. Having this guidance or supervision, you will use supervised or semi-supervised learning algorithms. If you don't have labels, you will use unsupervised learning algorithms.

There are other cases that require different approaches, such as reinforcement learning, but, in this chapter, the main focus will be on supervised and unsupervised algorithms.

The next frontier in ML pipelines is automation. When you first think about automating ML pipelines, the core elements...