Automated machine learning for production and analytics

• pip install auto_ml

from auto_ml import Predictor
from auto_ml.utils import get_boston_dataset

df_train, df_test = get_boston_dataset()

column_descriptions = {
    'MEDV': 'output'
    , 'CHAS': 'categorical'
}

ml_predictor = Predictor(type_of_estimator='regressor', column_descriptions=column_descriptions)

ml_predictor.train(df_train)

ml_predictor.score(df_test, df_test.MEDV)

auto_ml is designed for production. Here's an example that includes serializing and loading the trained model, then getting predictions on single dictionaries, roughly the process you'd likely follow to deploy the trained model.

import dill
from auto_ml import Predictor
from auto_ml.utils import get_boston_dataset

# Load data
df_train, df_test = get_boston_dataset()

# Tell auto_ml which column is 'output'
# Also note columns that aren't purely numerical
# Examples include ['nlp', 'date', 'categorical', 'ignore']
column_descriptions = {
  'MEDV': 'output'
  , 'CHAS': 'categorical'
}

ml_predictor = Predictor(type_of_estimator='regressor', column_descriptions=column_descriptions)

ml_predictor.train(df_train)

# Score the model on test data
test_score = ml_predictor.score(df_test, df_test.MEDV)

# auto_ml is specifically tuned for running in production
# It can get predictions on an individual row (passed in as a dictionary)
# A single prediction like this takes ~1 millisecond
# Here we will demonstrate saving the trained model, and loading it again
file_name = ml_predictor.save()

# dill is a drop-in replacement for pickle that handles functions better
with open (file_name, 'rb') as read_file:
    trained_model = dill.load(read_file)

# .predict and .predict_proba take in either:
# A pandas DataFrame
# A list of dictionaries
# A single dictionary (optimized for speed in production evironments)
predictions = trained_model.predict(df_test)
print(predictions)

auto_ml has all three of these awesome libraries integrated! Generally, just pass one of them in for model_names. ml_predictor.train(data, model_names=['DeepLearningClassifier'])

Available options are

• DeepLearningClassifier and DeepLearningRegressor
• XGBClassifier and XGBRegressor
• LGBMClassifer and LGBMRegressor

All of these projects are ready for production. These projects all have prediction time in the 1 millisecond range for a single prediction, and are able to be serialized to disk and loaded into a new environment after training.

Depending on your machine, they can occasionally be difficult to install, so they are not included in auto_ml's default installation. You are responsible for installing them yourself. auto_ml will run fine without them installed (we check what's isntalled before choosing which algorithm to use). If you want to try the easy install, just pip install -r advanced_requirements.txt, which will install TensorFlow, Keras, and XGBoost. LightGBM is not available as a pip install currently.

Binary and multiclass classification are both supported. Note that for now, labels must be integers (0 and 1 for binary classification). auto_ml will automatically detect if it is a binary or multiclass classification problem- you just have to pass in ml_predictor = Predictor(type_of_estimator='classifier', column_descriptions=column_descriptions)

Before you go any further, try running the code. Load up some data (either a DataFrame, or a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary is a row of data). Make a column_descriptions dictionary that tells us which attribute name in each row represents the value we're trying to predict. Pass all that into auto_ml, and see what happens!

Everything else in these docs assumes you have done at least the above. Start there and everything else will build on top. But this part gets you the output you're probably interested in, without unnecessary complexity.

The full docs are available at https://auto_ml.readthedocs.io Again though, I'd strongly recommend running this on an actual dataset before referencing the docs any futher.

Automates the whole machine learning process, making it super easy to use for both analytics, and getting real-time predictions in production.

A quick overview of buzzwords, this project automates:

• Analytics (pass in data, and auto_ml will tell you the relationship of each variable to what it is you're trying to predict).
• Feature Engineering (particularly around dates, and NLP).
• Robust Scaling (turning all values into their scaled versions between the range of 0 and 1, in a way that is robust to outliers, and works with sparse data).
• Feature Selection (picking only the features that actually prove useful).
• Data formatting (turning a DataFrame or a list of dictionaries into a sparse matrix, one-hot encoding categorical variables, taking the natural log of y for regression problems, etc).
• Model Selection (which model works best for your problem- we try roughly a dozen apiece for classification and regression problems, including favorites like XGBoost if it's installed on your machine).
• Hyperparameter Optimization (what hyperparameters work best for that model).

• Big Data (feed it lots of data- it's fairly efficient with resources).
• Unicorns (you could conceivably train it to predict what is a unicorn and what is not).
• Ice Cream (mmm, tasty...).
• Hugs (this makes it much easier to do your job, hopefully leaving you more time to hug those those you care about).

If you've cloned the source code and are making any changes (highly encouraged!), or just want to make sure everything works in your environment, run nosetests -v tests.

The tests are pretty comprehensive, though as with everything with auto_ml, I happily welcome your contributions here!