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Mastering Azure Machine Learning - Second Edition

By : Christoph Körner, Marcel Alsdorf
Book Image

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

Building an end-to-end MLOps pipeline

In this section, we want to set up an end-to-end MLOps pipeline. All required training code should be checked into version control, and the datasets and model will be versioned as well. We want to trigger a CI pipeline to build the code and retrain the model when the code or training data changes. Through unit and integration tests we will ensure that the training and inferencing code works in isolation and that the data and model fulfill all requirements and don't deviate from our initial assumptions. Therefore, the CI pipeline will be responsible for automatic continuous code builds, training, and tests.

Next, we will trigger the CD pipeline whenever a new model version is ready. This will deploy the model and inferencing configuration to a staging environment and run the end-to-end tests. After the tests have been completed successfully, we automatically want to deploy the model to production. Therefore, the CD pipeline will be responsible...