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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)

Computational complexity

Computational efficiency and complexity are important aspects of choosing ML algorithms, since they will dictate the resources needed for model training and scoring in terms of time and memory requirements.

For example, a compute-intensive algorithm will require a longer time to train and optimize its hyperparameters. You will usually distribute the workload among available CPUs or GPUs to reduce the amount of time spent to acceptable levels.

In this section, some algorithms will be examined in terms of these constraints but, before getting into deeper details of ML algorithms, you need to know the basics of the complexity of an algorithm.

The complexity of an algorithm will be based on its input size. For ML algorithms, this could be the number of elements and features. You will usually count the number of operations needed to complete the task in the...