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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
5
Section 2: AutoML with Cloud Platforms
12
Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

The Azure Machine Learning stack

The Microsoft Azure ecosystem is quite broad; in this chapter, we will focus on its AI and ML related cloud offerings, especially the Azure Machine Learning service.

The following figure shows the offerings available for ML in the Azure cloud:

Figure 4.2 – Azure cloud ML offerings

You can visit the following link for more information about the offerings in the preceding table:

It can be confusing to know which Azure Machine Learning offering should be chosen among the many described in the preceding table. The following diagram helps with choosing the right offering based on the given business and technology scenario:

Figure 4.3 – Azure Machine Learning decision flow

Automated ML is a part of the Azure Machine Learning service capabilities. Other capabilities include collaborative notebooks, data labeling, ML operations, a drag-and-drop designer studio, autoscaling capabilities...