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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)

Differences in training and scoring time

Time spent for training and scoring can make or break a ML project. If an algorithm takes too long to train on currently available hardware, updating the model with new data and hyperparameter optimization will be painful, which may force you to cross that algorithm out from your candidate list. If an algorithm takes too long to score, then this is probably a problem in the production environment since your application may require fast inference times such as milliseconds or microseconds to get predictions. That's why it's important to learn the inner workings of ML algorithms, at least the common ones at first, to sense-check algorithms suitability.

For example, supervised learning algorithms learn the relationship between sets of examples and their associated labels the during training process, where each example consists of...