Mastering
Azure
Machine Learning
Second Edition
Execute large-scale end-to-end machine learning
with Azure
Christoph Körner | Marcel Alsdorf
Mastering Azure Machine LearningSecond EditionChristoph Körner | Marcel Alsdorf
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
workfl ows. 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 fi rst 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, classifi cation, 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.
Second Edition
Mastering
Azure Machine Learning
Things you will learn:
• Understand the end-to-end ML pipeline • Get to grips with the Azure Machine
Learning workspace
• Ingest, analyze, and preprocess datasets
for ML using the Azure cloud
• Train traditional and modern ML techniques
effi ciently using Azure ML
• Deploy ML models for batch and
real-time scoring
• Understand model interoperability
with ONNX
• Deploy ML models to
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