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Machine Learning with BigQuery ML

By : Alessandro Marrandino
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Machine Learning with BigQuery ML

By: Alessandro Marrandino

Overview of this book

BigQuery ML enables you to easily build machine learning (ML) models with SQL without much coding. This book will help you to accelerate the development and deployment of ML models with BigQuery ML. The book starts with a quick overview of Google Cloud and BigQuery architecture. You'll then learn how to configure a Google Cloud project, understand the architectural components and capabilities of BigQuery, and find out how to build ML models with BigQuery ML. The book teaches you how to use ML using SQL on BigQuery. You'll analyze the key phases of a ML model's lifecycle and get to grips with the SQL statements used to train, evaluate, test, and use a model. As you advance, you'll build a series of use cases by applying different ML techniques such as linear regression, binary and multiclass logistic regression, k-means, ARIMA time series, deep neural networks, and XGBoost using practical use cases. Moving on, you'll cover matrix factorization and deep neural networks using BigQuery ML's capabilities. Finally, you'll explore the integration of BigQuery ML with other Google Cloud Platform components such as AI Platform Notebooks and TensorFlow along with discovering best practices and tips and tricks for hyperparameter tuning and performance enhancement. By the end of this BigQuery book, you'll be able to build and evaluate your own ML models with BigQuery ML.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
5
Section 2: Deep Learning Networks
9
Section 3: Advanced Models with BigQuery ML
15
Section 4: Further Extending Your ML Capabilities with GCP

Tuning hyperparameters

In this section, we'll discover the most important hyperparameters that we can tune in BigQuery ML.

Important note

Hyperparameter tuning is the practice of choosing the best set of parameters to train a specific ML model. A hyperparameter influences and controls the learning process during the ML training stage.

By design, BigQuery ML uses default hyperparameters to train a model, but advanced users can manually change them to influence the training process.

In BigQuery ML, we can specify the hyperparameters in the OPTIONS clause as optional parameters. The most relevant hyperparameters, depending on the model, that we can change before starting the training of a BigQuery ML model are listed here:

  • L1_REG: This is a regularization parameter that we can use to prevent overfitting by keeping the weights of the model close to zero.
  • L2_REG: This is a second regularization parameter that we can use to prevent overfitting.
  • MAX_ITERATIONS...