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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

Modeling with Azure Machine Learning

Before we create an automated ML workflow, let's start with a simple Azure notebook:

  1. Azure notebooks are an integrated part of the Azure Machine Learning service, and you can either create or use a sample notebook to get started:

    Figure 4.19 – Azure Machine Learning sample notebooks

  2. In the Search to filter notebooks box in the left pane, as shown in the following figure, search for MNIST and it will filter to show you the notebooks. Select the image-classification-part1-training.ipynb file to see the notebook in the right pane, and click on Clone this notebook to create your own copy:

    Figure 4.20 – MNIST image classification notebook

  3. Click on the Clone this notebook button to clone the notebook. Cloning the notebook copies the notebook and associated configurations into your user folder as shown in the following figure. This step copies the notebooks and yml configuration files to the user directory:

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