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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)
1
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

Types of problems TPOT can solve

The TPOT library was designed as a go-to tool for automating machine learning tasks; hence, it should be able to handle with ease anything you throw at it. We will start using TPOT in a practical sense soon. Chapter 3, Exploring before Regression, shows how to use the library to handle practical tasks with many examples, and the following chapters focus on other types of tasks.

In general, TPOT can be used to handle the following types of tasks:

  • Regression: Where the target variable is continuous, such as age, height, weight, score, or price. Refer to Chapter 1, Machine Learning and the Idea of Automation, for a brief overview of regression.
  • Classification: Where the target variable is categorical, such as sold/did not sell, churn/did not churn, or yes/no. Refer to Chapter 1, Machine Learning and the Idea of Automation, for a brief overview of classification.
  • Parallel training: TPOT can handle the training of machine learning models...