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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

Time series prediction using AutoML

Forecasting energy demand is a real problem in the industry where energy providers like to predict the consumer's expected needs in advance. In this example, we will use the New York City energy demand dataset, which is available in the public domain. We will use historic time series data and apply AutoML for forecasting; that is, predicting energy demand for the next 48 hours.

The machine learning notebook is part of the Azure model repository, which can be accessed on GitHub at https://github.com/Azure/MachineLearningNotebooks/. Let's get started:

  1. Clone the aforementioned GitHub repository on your local disk and navigate to the forecasting-energy-demand folder:

    Figure 5.30 – Azure Machine Learning notebooks GitHub repository

  2. Click on the Upload folder icon and upload the forecasting-energy-demand folder to the Azure notebook repository, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 5.31 – Uploading a folder...