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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
12
Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to get started with Google Cloud AI Platform and learned about AI Hub, how to build a notebook instance, and how to run a simple program. You also learned about the different flavors of automated ML offered by GCP, including AutoML Natural Language, AutoML Tables, AutoML Translation, AutoML Video, and AutoML Vision. If the breadth of GCP offerings, capabilities, and services have left you overwhelmed, you are in good company.

In the next chapter, we will do a deep dive into Google Cloud AutoML Tables. We will build models and explain how the automated ML functionality works with AutoML Tables, that is, how you can take unstructured data and perform automated ML tasks of analyzing the input features (feature engineering), selecting the model (neural architecture search), and doing hyperparameter tuning. We will deploy these models on GCP and test them via web services to demonstrate the operationalization of these capabilities. Stay tuned...