Dear reader, welcome to the world of automated machine learning (ML). Automated ML (AutoML) is designed to automate parts of ML. The readily available AutoML tools make the tasks of data science practitioners easier and are being well received in the advanced analytics community. This book covers the foundations you need to create AutoML modules, and shows how you can get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible.
You will learn to automate different tasks in the ML pipeline, such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. The book also demonstrates how to use already available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and how to create and extend your own custom AutoML components for ML.
By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of what the different aspects of AutoML are, and will be able to incorporate the automation tasks using practical datasets. The knowledge you get from this book can be leveraged to implement ML in your projects, or to get a step closer to winning an ML competition. We hope that everyone who buys this book finds it worthy and informative.