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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Automated Machine Learning
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Section 2: AutoML with Cloud Platforms
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Section 3: Applied Automated Machine Learning

Building and running SageMaker Autopilot experiments from the notebook

Customer churn is a real problem for businesses and in this example, we will use our knowledge of completing AutoML in Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to build a customer churn prediction experiment using the notebook. In this experiment, we will use a publicly available dataset of US mobile customers provided by Daniel T. Larose in his book Discovering Knowledge in Data. To demonstrate running the full gamut, the sample notebook executes the Autopilot experiment by performing feature engineering, building a model pipeline (along with any optimal hyperparameters), and deploying the model.

The evolution of the UI/API/CLI paradigm has helped us utilize the same interface in multiple formats; in this case, we will be utilizing the capabilities of Amazon SageMaker Autopilot directly from the notebook. Let's get started:

  1. Open the autopilot_customer_churn notebook from the amazon-sagemaker-examples/autopilot...