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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

Automated ML with Google Cloud

Automated ML is one of the key building blocks of Google Cloud AI Platform. The suite of automated ML products includes AutoML Natural Language, AutoML Tables, AutoML Translation, AutoML Video, and AutoML Vision, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 8.16 – AutoML products offered as part of Google Cloud AI Platform

The underlying components of Google Cloud's automated ML offerings involve neural architecture search and hyperparameter optimization approaches. However, by abstracting out all the intricacies, it is made easy for consumers to use.

Google Cloud AutoML Vision is a computer vision-based capability that helps train ML models on custom labels. You can also perform the same on Edge devices using the AutoML Vision Edge service.

The AutoML Video Intelligence range of products provides classification and object tracking capabilities. Currently in PreGA (beta), you can use these services to train your...