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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
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Section 2: AutoML with Cloud Platforms
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Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

Google Cloud AI Platform and AI Hub

A part of the larger AI Platform offering, Google Cloud AI Hub is the one-stop shop for all things AI – it even says so on the home page. AI Hub is in beta at the time of writing. However, that shouldn't stop you from trying out its amazing one-click deployment capabilities. AI Hub and AI Platform can be confusing; the difference is in how GCP frames the problem. AI Hub focuses on enterprise-grade sharing capabilities to enable private collaboration and hosting, while AI Platform is a larger ecosystem of all things AI, including notebooks, jobs, and platforms. This is not to say that these capabilities don't overlap, and the GCP marketing team will probably come up with a cohesive strategy one day – but until then, the duality continues.

The following screenshot shows the AI Hub home page. You navigate to this page by clicking the AI Hub link on the AI Platform page at https://console.cloud.google.com/ai-platform/dashboard...