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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 4: Machine Learning Model Deployment and Operations

In this final section, we will bring our models into production by deploying them to a cluster for batch scoring or to endpoints for online scoring and we will learn how to monitor these deployments. Furthermore, we will discuss specialized deployment targets and available integrations with other Azure services. Bringing everything we learned together, we will then learn how to operate enterprise-grade end-to-end Machine Learning (ML) projects using MLOps concepts and Azure DevOps. Finally, we will end the book with a summary of what we learned, having a look at what can and will change and gaining an understanding of our responsibility when building ML models and working with data.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 14, Model Deployment, Endpoints, and Operations
  • Chapter 15, Model Interoperability, Hardware Optimization, and Integrations
  • Chapter 16, Bringing Models into Production with...