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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

Creating an Amazon SageMaker Autopilot limited experiment

Let's gets a hands-on introduction to applying AutoML using SageMaker Autopilot. We will download and apply AutoML to an open source dataset. Let's get started!

  1. From Amazon SageMaker Studio, start a data science notebook by clicking on the Python 3 button, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.1 – Amazon SageMaker Launcher main screen

    Download the Bank Marketing dataset from UCI by calling the following URL retrieve commands and save it in your notebook:

    Figure 7.2 – Amazon SageMaker Studio Jupyter Notebook – downloading the dataset

    This Bank Marketing dataset is from a Portuguese banking institution and has the classification goal of predicting the client's subscription to deposit (binary feature, y). The dataset is from Moro, Cortez, and Rita's paper on "A Data-Driven Approach to Predict the Success of Bank Telemarketing. Decision Support Systems", published...