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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

Integrating ML models and endpoints with Azure services

Relying on the Azure Machine Learning service either for experimentation, performing end-to-end training, or simply registering your trained models and environments brings you a ton of value. In Chapter 14, Model Deployment, Endpoints, and Operations, we covered two main scenarios, a real-time scoring web service through automated deployments and batch scoring through a deployed pipeline. While these two use cases are quite different in requirement and deployment types, they show what is possible once you have a trained model and packaged environment stored in Azure Machine Learning. In this section, we will discuss how to use and integrate these models or their endpoints in other Azure services.

In many scenarios, abstracting your batch-scoring pipeline from the actual data processing pipeline to separate concerns and responsibilities makes a lot of sense. However, sometimes your scoring should happen directly during the data...