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Mastering Azure Machine Learning - Second Edition

By : Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf
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Mastering Azure Machine Learning - Second Edition

By: Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf

Overview of this book

Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for accelerating and managing the machine learning (ML) project life cycle that ML professionals, data scientists, and engineers can use in their day-to-day workflows. This book covers the end-to-end ML process using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, including data preparation, performing and logging ML training runs, designing training and deployment pipelines, and managing these pipelines via MLOps. The first section shows you how to set up an Azure Machine Learning workspace; ingest and version datasets; as well as preprocess, label, and enrich these datasets for training. In the next two sections, you'll discover how to enrich and train ML models for embedding, classification, and regression. You'll explore advanced NLP techniques, traditional ML models such as boosted trees, modern deep neural networks, recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, and complex distributed ML training techniques - all using Azure Machine Learning. The last section will teach you how to deploy the trained models as a batch pipeline or real-time scoring service using Docker, Azure Machine Learning clusters, Azure Kubernetes Services, and alternative deployment targets. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to combine all the steps you’ve learned by building an MLOps pipeline.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Azure Machine Learning
5
Section 2: Data Ingestion, Preparation, Feature Engineering, and Pipelining
11
Section 3: The Training and Optimization of Machine Learning Models
17
Section 4: Machine Learning Model Deployment and Operations

Section 3: The Training and Optimization of Machine Learning Models

In this section, we will learn all about training and optimizing traditional Machine Learning (ML) models as well as deep learning models on Azure. First, we will investigate the benefits and downsides of traditional ensemble techniques and their differences from newer neural network-based models. We will then implement and train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on Azure using the capabilities of Azure Machine Learning services. Following this, we will look at ways to optimize model training through hyperparameter tuning and automated ML. Furthermore, we will have a look at how to run ML training not on a single compute instance, but on a distributed cluster. With the knowledge obtained, we'll wrap this section up by building a recommendation engine in the cloud.

This section comprises the following chapters: