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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)

An introduction to machine learning pipelines

Usually, an ML algorithm needs clean data to detect some patterns in the data and make predictions over a new dataset. However, in real-world applications, the data is often not ready to be directly fed into an ML algorithm. Similarly, the output from an ML model is just numbers or characters that need to be processed for performing some actions in the real world. To accomplish that, the ML model has to be deployed in a production environment. This entire framework of converting raw data to usable information is performed using a ML pipeline.

The following is a high-level illustration of an ML pipeline:

We will break down the blocks illustrated in the preceding figure as follows:

  • Data Ingestion: It is the process of obtaining data and importing data for use. Data can be sourced from multiple systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning...