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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 chapter might be hard to process if this was your first encounter with deep learning and neural networks. Going over the materials a couple of times could help, but it won't be enough to understand the topic fully. Entire books have been written on deep learning, and even on small subsets of deep learning. Hence, covering everything in a single chapter isn't possible.

Still, you should have the basic theory behind the concepts of neurons, layers, and activation functions, and you can always learn more on your own. The following chapter, Chapter 7, Neural Network Classifier with TPOT, will show you how to connect neural networks and pipeline optimization, so you can build state-of-the-art models in a completely automated fashion.

As always, please feel free to explore the theory and practice of deep learning and neural networks on your own. It is definitely a field of study worth exploring further.