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Automated Machine Learning

By : Adnan Masood
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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

Creating an AutoML Tables experiment

AutoML Tables automatically builds and deploys state-of-the-art machine learning models on structured data. Let's start with our first experiment to put this knowledge into practice:

  1. Access the Google Cloud AI Platform home page by visiting this link: https://console.cloud.google.com/home/. Click on the Datasets link in the left pane; you will see the following screen:

    Figure 9.1 – Google Cloud AI Platform home page

  2. On the Google AutoML Tables main screen, start the process by creating a new dataset. Click on the NEW DATASET button to create a new dataset and name it IrisAutoML. Then, click on CREATE DATASET:

    Figure 9.2 – AutoML Tables – Create new dataset screen

  3. For this experiment, we will start with the Iris dataset. You can download the CSV file from https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/iris since we will be using it in the next step. The dataset is too small to be used for automated machine learning though...