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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

Summary

This was the first purely hands-on chapter in the book. You've connected the theory from the previous chapters with practice. You've built not one, but three fully automated machine learning models. Without any kind of doubt, you should now be able to use TPOT to solve any type of regression problem.

As with most things in data science and machine learning, 90% of the work boils down to data preparation. TPOT can make this percentage even higher because less time is spent designing and tweaking the models. Use this extra time wisely, and get yourself fully acquainted with the dataset. There's no way around it.

In the next chapter, you'll see how to build automated machine learning models for classification datasets. That chapter will also be entirely hands-on. Later, in Chapter 5, Parallel Training with TPOT and Dask, we'll combine both theory and practice.