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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)
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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

Establishing trust – model interpretability and transparency in automated ML

Establishing trust in the model trained by automated ML can appear to be a challenging value proposition. Explaining to the business leaders, auditors, and stakeholders responsible for automated decision management that they can trust an algorithm to train and build a model that will be used for a potentially mission-critical system requires that you don't treat it any different from a "man-made" ML model. Model monitoring and observability requirements do not change based on the technique used to build the model. Reproducible model training and quality measurements, such as validating data, component integration, model quality, bias, and fairness, are also required as part of any ML development life cycle.

Let's explore some of the approaches and techniques we can use to build trust in automated ML models and ensure governance measures.

Feature importance

Feature importance...