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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By : Julien Simon
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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By: Julien Simon

Overview of this book

Amazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the machine learning problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by eliminating the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This second edition will help data scientists and ML developers to explore new features such as SageMaker Data Wrangler, Pipelines, Clarify, Feature Store, and much more. You'll start by learning how to use various capabilities of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve ML challenges and progress to cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. The book will then show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, to extend the capabilities of existing models. You'll also see how automating your workflows can help you get to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you'll explore SageMaker Debugger and SageMaker Model Monitor to detect quality issues in training and production. By the end of this Amazon book, you'll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
4
Section 2: Building and Training Models
11
Section 3: Diving Deeper into Training
14
Section 4: Managing Models in Production

Managing features and building datasets with SageMaker Feature Store

Until now, we've engineered our training and validation features in a notebook or in a SageMaker Processing script, before storing them as S3 objects. Then, we used these objects as-is to train and evaluate models. This is a perfectly reasonable workflow. However, the following questions may arise as your machine learning workflows grow and mature:

  • How can we apply a well-defined schema to our features?
  • How can we select a subset of our features to build different datasets?
  • How can we store and manage different feature versions?
  • How can we discover and reuse feature engineering by other teams?
  • How can we access engineered features at prediction time?

SageMaker Feature Store is designed to answer these questions. Let's add it to the classification training workflow we built with BlazingText and Amazon Reviews in Chapter 6, Training Natural Language Processing Models.

Engineering...