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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

Custom ML services

Azure provides many PaaS services for different specialized domains. Platform services are built on top of IaaS services and implement useful abstractions and functionalities commonly used for the relevant domain. One such domain is ML, where you will find various services for building custom ML models. In this section, we will take a look at the most popular custom ML PaaS services.

We will start first with the GUI-based solutions Azure Machine Learning Studio (classic) and Azure Machine Learning designer, and then switch to the GUI and API-based Azure Automated Machine Learning. Finally, we will take a look at Azure Machine Learning, the service that provides the workspaces for resources and assets for both previous services.

Azure Machine Learning will help us to create notebook instances for authoring, train clusters for training, upload and register datasets, track experiments and trained models, as well as to track our Conda/PIP environments and Docker...