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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)
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Part 1: Training and Tuning Models with the Azure Machine Learning Service
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Part 2: Deploying and Explaining Models in AMLS
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Part 3: Productionizing Your Workload with MLOps

Responsible AI Toolbox overview

One of the biggest challenges we face in data science is understanding what the model does. For example, if the algorithms we use are all black boxes, it’s not that easy to know how the decisions are made. To discern how our algorithms make decisions, we can make use of responsible AI. This will give us the opportunity to explain the model’s decisions, find the features that contribute to the prediction, do error analysis on the dataset, and also ensure fairness in the dataset.

Microsoft recently developed a Responsible AI Toolbox that encompasses interpretability, fairness, counterfactual analysis, and causal decision-making through three dashboards: a fairness dashboard, an error analysis dashboard, and an interpretability dashboard.

Dashboards simplify the user interface (UI) by bringing all the toolkit output into one UI. Before the toolbox, it was hard because we needed to download a separate library and build code for each of...