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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)

Bayesian-based hyperparameter tuning

There are a couple of approaches to be used when it comes to model-based hyperparameter tuning and these approaches come together under Sequential Model-based Global Optimization (SMBO).

When you think about GridSearchCV or RandomizedSearchCV, you may rightfully feel that the way they cross validate hyperparameters is not very smart. Both pre-define sets of hyperparameters to be validated during training time and are not designed to benefit from the information that they might get during training. If you could find a way to learn from previous iterations of hyperparameter validation based on model performance, then you would have an idea about which hyperparameter set is likely to give a better performance in the next iteration.

SMBO approaches emanated from this reasoning and Bayesian-based hyperparameter optimization is one of these approaches...