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Azure Machine Learning Engineering

By : Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz
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Azure Machine Learning Engineering

By: Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz

Overview of this book

Data scientists working on productionizing machine learning (ML) workloads face a breadth of challenges at every step owing to the countless factors involved in getting ML models deployed and running. This book offers solutions to common issues, detailed explanations of essential concepts, and step-by-step instructions to productionize ML workloads using the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll see how data scientists and ML engineers working with Microsoft Azure can train and deploy ML models at scale by putting their knowledge to work with this practical guide. Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to train, register, and productionize ML models by making use of the power of the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll get to grips with scoring models in real time and batch, explaining models to earn business trust, mitigating model bias, and developing solutions using an MLOps framework. By the end of this Azure Machine Learning book, you’ll be ready to build and deploy end-to-end ML solutions into a production system using the Azure Machine Learning service for real-time scenarios.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Training and Tuning Models with the Azure Machine Learning Service
7
Part 2: Deploying and Explaining Models in AMLS
12
Part 3: Productionizing Your Workload with MLOps

Responsible AI principles

As mentioned, there are six core principles – Fairness, Reliability and Safety, Privacy and Security, Inclusiveness, Transparency, and Accountability – that Microsoft has incorporated into their Responsible AI Toolbox. We will briefly explain these as follows:

  • Fairness in the context of AI systems is a sociotechnical challenge that scientists and developers need to address to ensure that people are treated equally and to reduce unfairness relating to the specific use case we are building the model for. In a variety of domains and use cases, AI systems can be used to provide resources and opportunities, and through checking fairness we can ensure that we are not reinforcing existing stereotypes.

For example, if we are predicting what ethnic groups there are in a certain segment of the population and what their food preferences are, not all customer segments of cities or states have the same ethnic diversity. So, when we design the...