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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

Getting started with the Azure Machine Learning service

In this section, we will explore a step-by-step walk-through of creating a classification model using Azure Machine Learning:

  1. Sign up for a Microsoft account, unless if you already have one, then log into the Azure Machine Learning portal at ml.azure.com. Here, you will see the ML studio as shown in the following figure. An Azure subscription is essentially the way you pay for services. You can either use your existing subscription if you have one or sign up for a new one. For a brand-new user, the nice folks at Azure offer a $200 credit to get you acquainted. Make sure to turn off the resources when you are not using them; don't leave the data center lights on:

    Figure 4.7 – Azure Machine Learning service subscription startup page

  2. In the following figure, you can see we have now been asked to select a subscription. In this case, we'll choose Free Trial to explore the services. You can also choose...