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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

Introducing automated ML in an organization

Now that you have reviewed the automated ML platforms and the open source ecosystem and understand how it works under the hood, wouldn't you like to introduce automated ML in your organization? So, how do you do it? Here are some pointers to guide you through the process.

Brace for impact

Andrew Ng is the founder and CEO of Landing AI, the former VP and chief scientist of Baidu, the co-chairman and co-founder of Coursera, the former founder and leader of Google Brain, and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He has written extensively about AI and ML and his courses are seminal for anyone starting out with ML and deep learning. In his HBR article on AI in the enterprise, he poses five key questions to validate whether an AI project would be successful. We believe that this applies equally well to automated ML projects. The questions you should ask are as follows:

  • Does the project give you a quick win?
  • Is...