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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

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning

"As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives."

– Fei-Fei Li, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the major AutoML Open Source Software (OSS) tools and libraries. We did a tour of the major OSS offerings, including TPOT, AutoKeras, auto-sklearn, Featuretools, and Microsoft NNI, which will have helped you, the reader, understand the differential value propositions and approaches used in each of these libraries.

In this chapter, we will start exploring the first of many commercial offerings, namely Microsoft's Azure capabilities in automated Machine Learning (ML). Azure Machine Learning is part of the Microsoft AI ecosystem, which helps accelerate the end-to-end ML life cycle using the power of the Windows Azure platform and services. We will start with an...