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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

Introducing artificial neural networks

The fundamental building block of an artificial neural network is the neuron. By itself, a single neuron is useless, but it can have strong predictive power when combined into a more complex network.

If you can't reason why, think about your brain and how it works for a minute. Just like artificial neural networks, it is also made from millions of neurons, which function only when there's communication between them. Since artificial neural networks try to imitate the human brain, they need to somehow replicate neurons in the brain and connections between them (weights). This association will be made less abstract throughout this section.

Today, artificial neural networks can be used to tackle any problem that regular machine learning algorithms can. In a nutshell, if you can solve a problem with linear or logistic regression, you can solve it with neural networks.

Before we can explore the complexity and inner workings of an...