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Machine Learning Automation with TPOT

By : Dario Radečić
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Machine Learning Automation with TPOT

By: Dario Radečić

Overview of this book

The automation of machine learning tasks allows developers more time to focus on the usability and reactivity of the software powered by machine learning models. TPOT is a Python automated machine learning tool used for optimizing machine learning pipelines using genetic programming. Automating machine learning with TPOT enables individuals and companies to develop production-ready machine learning models cheaper and faster than with traditional methods. With this practical guide to AutoML, developers working with Python on machine learning tasks will be able to put their knowledge to work and become productive quickly. You'll adopt a hands-on approach to learning the implementation of AutoML and associated methodologies. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will show you how to build automated classification and regression models and compare their performance to custom-built models. As you advance, you'll also develop state-of-the-art models using only a couple of lines of code and see how those models outperform all of your previous models on the same datasets. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to implement AutoML techniques in your organization on a production level.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Introducing Machine Learning and the Idea of Automation
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Section 2: TPOT – Practical Classification and Regression
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Section 3: Advanced Examples and Neural Networks in TPOT

Why do we need model deployment?

If you're already going through the hassle of training and optimizing machine learning models, why don't you take it a step further and deploy it so everyone can use it?

Maybe you want to have the model's predictive capabilities available in a web application. Perhaps you're a mobile app developer who wants to bring machine learning to Android and iOS. The options are endless and different, but all of them share one similarity – the need to be deployed.

Now, machine learning model deployment has nothing to do with machine learning. The aim is to write a simple REST API (preferably in Python, since that's the language used throughout the book) and expose any form of endpoint that calls a predict() function to the world. You want parameters sent to your application in JSON format, and then to use them as inputs to your model. Once the prediction is made, you can simply return it to the user.

Yes, that's all...