AutoML Frameworks
+ There is more to an AutoML system than just its performance. This page + contains more information about the integrated AutoML frameworks, + including links to their papers, repositories +
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+ documentation 📖. Summaries taken directly from the respective
+ documentation pages. Want to integrate your own framework?
+ Adding your own framework
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+ AutoGluon enables easy-to-use and easy-to-extend AutoML with a focus
+ on automated stack ensembling, deep learning, and real-world
+ applications spanning image, text, and tabular data.
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+ + AutoGluon-Tabular: Robust and Accurate AutoML for Structured + Data +
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+ We introduce AutoGluon-Tabular, an open-source AutoML framework
+ that requires only a single line of Python to train highly
+ accurate machine learning models on an unprocessed tabular
+ dataset such as a CSV file. Unlike existing AutoML frameworks
+ that primarily focus on model/hyperparameter selection,
+ AutoGluon-Tabular succeeds by ensembling multiple models and
+ stacking them in multiple layers. Experiments reveal that our
+ multi-layer combination of many models offers better use of
+ allocated training time than seeking out the best. A second
+ contribution is an extensive evaluation of public and commercial
+ AutoML platforms including TPOT, H2O, AutoWEKA, auto-sklearn,
+ AutoGluon, and Google AutoML Tables. Tests on a suite of 50
+ classification and regression tasks from Kaggle and the OpenML
+ AutoML Benchmark reveal that AutoGluon is faster, more robust,
+ and much more accurate. We find that AutoGluon often even
+ outperforms the best-in-hindsight combination of all of its
+ competitors. In two popular Kaggle competitions, AutoGluon beat
+ 99% of the participating data scientists after merely 4h of
+ training on the raw data.
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+ Auto-sklearn is an automated machine learning toolkit and a drop-in
+ replacement for a scikit-learn estimator. Auto-sklearn frees a
+ machine learning user from algorithm selection and hyperparameter
+ tuning. It leverages recent advantages in Bayesian optimization,
+ meta-learning and ensemble construction.
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+ + Auto-Sklearn 2.0: Hands-free AutoML via Meta-Learning +
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+ Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) supports practitioners and
+ researchers with the tedious task of designing machine learning
+ pipelines and has recently achieved substantial success. In this
+ paper we introduce new AutoML approaches motivated by our
+ winning submission to the second ChaLearn AutoML challenge. We
+ develop PoSH Auto-sklearn, which enables AutoML systems to work
+ well on large datasets under rigid time limits using a new,
+ simple and meta-feature-free meta-learning technique and employs
+ a successful bandit strategy for budget allocation. However,
+ PoSH Auto-sklearn introduces even more ways of running AutoML
+ and might make it harder for users to set it up correctly.
+ Therefore, we also go one step further and study the design
+ space of AutoML itself, proposing a solution towards truly
+ hands-free AutoML. Together, these changes give rise to the next
+ generation of our AutoML system, Auto-sklearn 2.0 . We verify
+ the improvements by these additions in a large experimental
+ study on 39 AutoML benchmark datasets and conclude the paper by
+ comparing to other popular AutoML frameworks and Auto-sklearn
+ 1.0 , reducing the relative error by up to a factor of 4.5, and
+ yielding a performance in 10 minutes that is substantially
+ better than what Auto-sklearn 1.0 achieves within an hour.
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+ + Efficient and Robust Automated Machine Learning +
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+ The success of machine learning in a broad range of applications
+ has led to an ever-growing demand for machine learning systems
+ that can be used off the shelf by non-experts. To be effective
+ in practice, such systems need to automatically choose a good
+ algorithm and feature preprocessing steps for a new dataset at
+ hand, and also set their respective hyperparameters. Recent work
+ has started to tackle this automated machine learning (AutoML)
+ problem with the help of efficient Bayesian optimization
+ methods. In this work we introduce a robust new AutoML system
+ based on scikit-learn (using 15 classifiers, 14 feature
+ preprocessing methods, and 4 data preprocessing methods, giving
+ rise to a structured hypothesis space with 110 hyperparameters).
+ This system, which we dub auto-sklearn, improves on existing
+ AutoML methods by automatically taking into account past
+ performance on similar datasets, and by constructing ensembles
+ from the models evaluated during the optimization. Our system
+ won the first phase of the ongoing ChaLearn AutoML challenge,
+ and our comprehensive analysis on over 100 diverse datasets
+ shows that it substantially outperforms the previous state of
+ the art in AutoML. We also demonstrate the performance gains due
+ to each of our contributions and derive insights into the
+ effectiveness of the individual components of auto-sklearn.
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+ FLAML is a lightweight Python library that finds accurate machine
+ learning models automatically, efficiently and economically. It
+ frees users from selecting learners and hyperparameters for each
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+ + FLAML: A Fast and Lightweight AutoML Library +
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+ We study the problem of using low computational cost to automate
+ the choices of learners and hyperparameters for an ad-hoc
+ training dataset and error metric, by conducting trials of
+ different configurations on the given training data. We
+ investigate the joint impact of multiple factors on both trial
+ cost and model error, and propose several design guidelines.
+ Following them, we build a fast and lightweight library FLAML
+ which optimizes for low computational resource in finding
+ accurate models. FLAML integrates several simple but effective
+ search strategies into an adaptive system. It significantly
+ outperforms top-ranked AutoML libraries on a large open source
+ AutoML benchmark under equal, or sometimes orders of magnitude
+ smaller budget constraints.
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+ GAMA is developed for AutoML research and features a flexible AutoML
+ pipeline, which makes it easy to develop and evaluate new AutoML
+ components. GAMA's benchmarking configuration features evolutionary
+ optimization and ensemble construction.
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+ + GAMA: A General Automated Machine Learning Assistant +
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+ The General Automated Machine learning Assistant (GAMA) is a
+ modular AutoML system developed to empower users to track and
+ control how AutoML algorithms search for optimal machine
+ learning pipelines, and facilitate AutoML research itself. In
+ contrast to current, often black-box systems, GAMA allows users
+ to plug in different AutoML and post-processing techniques, logs
+ and visualizes the search process, and supports easy
+ benchmarking. It currently features three AutoML search
+ algorithms, two model post-processing steps, and is designed to
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+ H2O's AutoML can be used for automating the machine learning
+ workflow, which includes automatic training and tuning of many
+ models within a user-specified time-limit. H2O offers a number of
+ model explainability methods that apply to AutoML objects (groups of
+ models), as well as individual models (e.g. leader model).
+ Explanations can be generated automatically with a single function
+ call, providing a simple interface to exploring and explaining the
+ AutoML models.
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+ + H2O AutoML: Scalable Automatic Machine Learning +
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+ H2O is an open source, distributed machine learning platform
+ designed to scale to very large datasets, with APIs in R,
+ Python, Java and Scala. We present H2O AutoML, a highly
+ scalable, fully-automated, supervised learning algorithm which
+ automates the pro- cess of training a large selection of
+ candidate models and stacked ensembles within a single function.
+ The result of the AutoML run is a “leaderboard”: a ranked list
+ of models, all of which can be easily exported for use in a
+ production environment. Models in the leader- board can be
+ ranked by numerous model performance metrics or other model
+ attributes such as training time or average per-row prediction
+ speed. The H2O AutoML algorithm relies on the efficient training
+ of H2O machine learning al- gorithms to produce a large number
+ of models in a short amount of time. H2O AutoML uses a
+ combination of fast random search and stacked ensembles to
+ achieve results competitive with, and often better than, other
+ frameworks which rely on more complex model tuning techniques
+ such as Bayesian optimization or genetic algorithms. H2O AutoML
+ trains a va- riety of algorithms (e.g. GBMs, Random Forests,
+ Deep Neural Networks, GLMs), yielding a healthy amount of
+ diversity across candidate models, which can be exploited by
+ stacked ensembles to produce a powerful final model. The
+ effectiveness of this technique is reflected in the OpenML
+ AutoML Benchmark, which compares the performance of several of
+ the most well known, open source AutoML systems across a number
+ of datasets.
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+ LightAutoML is open-source Python library aimed at automated machine
+ learning. It is designed to be lightweight and efficient for various
+ tasks with tabular, text data.
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+ The mljar-supervised is an Automated Machine Learning Python package
+ that works with tabular data. It is designed to save time for a data
+ scientist. It abstracts the common way to preprocess the data,
+ construct the machine learning models, and perform hyper-parameters
+ tuning to find the best model 🏆. It is no black-box as you can see
+ exactly how the ML pipeline is constructed (with a detailed Markdown
+ report for each ML model).
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+ TPOT is a Python Automated Machine Learning tool that optimizes
+ machine learning pipelines using genetic programming. It has a focus
+ on optimizing models for biomedical data.
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+ + Automating biomedical data science through tree-based pipeline + optimization +
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+ Automated machine learning (AutoML) systems are helpful data
+ science assistants designed to scan data for novel features,
+ select appropriate supervised learning models and optimize their
+ parameters. For this purpose, Tree-based Pipeline Optimization
+ Tool (TPOT) was developed using strongly typed genetic
+ programing (GP) to recommend an optimized analysis pipeline for
+ the data scientist’s prediction problem. However, like other
+ AutoML systems, TPOT may reach computational resource limits
+ when working on big data such as whole-genome expression data.
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