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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
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Section 2: AutoML with Cloud Platforms
12
Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

Summary

Today, the success of ML within an enterprise largely depends on human ML experts who can construct business-specific features and workflows. Automated ML aims to change this, as it aims to automate ML so as to provide off-the-shelf ML methods that can be utilized without expert knowledge. To understand how automated ML works, we need to review the underlying four subfields, or pillars, of automated ML: hyperparameter optimization; automated feature engineering; neural architecture search; and meta-learning.

In this chapter, we explained what is under the hood in terms of the technologies, techniques, and tools used to make automated ML possible. We hope that this chapter has introduced you to automated ML techniques and that you are now ready to do a deeper dive into the implementation phase.

In the next chapter, we will review the open source tools and libraries that implement these algorithms to get a hands-on overview of how to use these concepts in practice, so...