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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 Featuretools

Featuretools is an excellent Python framework that helps with automated feature engineering by using DFS. Feature engineering is a tough problem due to its very nuanced nature. However, this open source toolkit, with its robust timestamp handling and reusable feature primitives, provides a proper framework for us to build and extract combinations of features and their impact.

The toolkit is available on GitHub to be downloaded: https://github.com/FeatureLabs/featuretools/. The following steps will guide you through how to install Featuretools, as well as how to run an automated ML experiment using the library. Let's get started:

  1. To start Featuretools in Colab, you will need to use pip to install the package. In this example, we will try to create features for the Boston Housing Prices dataset:

    Figure 3.19 – AutoML with Featuretools – installing Featuretools

    In this experiment, we will be using the Boston Housing Prices dataset...