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Automated Machine Learning

By : Adnan Masood
Book Image

Automated Machine Learning

By: Adnan Masood

Overview of this book

Every machine learning engineer deals with systems that have hyperparameters, and the most basic task in automated machine learning (AutoML) is to automatically set these hyperparameters to optimize performance. The latest deep neural networks have a wide range of hyperparameters for their architecture, regularization, and optimization, which can be customized effectively to save time and effort. This book reviews the underlying techniques of automated feature engineering, model and hyperparameter tuning, gradient-based approaches, and much more. You'll discover different ways of implementing these techniques in open source tools and then learn to use enterprise tools for implementing AutoML in three major cloud service providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform. As you progress, you’ll explore the features of cloud AutoML platforms by building machine learning models using AutoML. The book will also show you how to develop accurate models by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks in the machine learning development lifecycle. By the end of this machine learning book, you’ll be able to build and deploy AutoML models that are not only accurate, but also increase productivity, allow interoperability, and minimize feature engineering tasks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Automated Machine Learning
5
Section 2: AutoML with Cloud Platforms
12
Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

Getting started with the Google Cloud Platform services

Like other hyperscalers and cloud computing platforms, the Google Cloud computing services also provide a large variety of general-purpose compute, analytics, storage, and security services. Besides the well-known App Engine, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Storage, Security, Networking, and IoT offerings, there are more than 100 products listed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products page. You can visit the GCP console by typing in console.cloud.google.com, as seen in the following figure:

Figure 8.1 – GCP console

The key products and offerings are divided into categories such as compute, storage, database, networking, operations, big data, AI, and general development tools. The GCP Services Summary (https://cloud.google.com/terms/services) offers the most up-to-date list of all the services and offerings from GCP. The scope and breadth of each of these services is enormous and...