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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)

Machine learning as a search

Throughout the previous chapters, you have seen many different techniques applied to modeling problems and most of those techniques, although they seem simple, include many parameters that ultimately affect the outcome of your efforts. Many modeling problems require AutoML to be represented as a search problem and in the majority of cases, there are only sub-optimal solutions to be found.

In a broader sense, modeling is just a mapping between your input data and output data. As a result, you will be able to infer the output where new input data arrives with unknown output. In order to achieve your objective, you need to think about your experiment design and configure your environment accordingly, since you really don't know what will be the best-performing ML pipeline—but let's stop for a second and step back.

Implementing performant...