Machine Learning with LightGBM and Python: A practitioner's guide to developing production-ready machine learning systems

by Andrich van Wyk

Overview

Machine Learning with LightGBM and Python is a comprehensive guide to learning the basics of machine learning and progressing to building scalable machine learning systems that are ready for release.
This book will get you acquainted with the high-performance gradient-boosting LightGBM framework and show you how it can be used to solve various machine-learning problems to produce highly accurate, robust, and predictive solutions. Starting with simple machine learning models in scikit-learn, you’ll explore the intricacies of gradient boosting machines and LightGBM. You’ll be guided through various case studies to better understand the data science processes and learn how to practically apply your skills to real-world problems. As you progress, you’ll elevate your software engineering skills by learning how to build and integrate scalable machine-learning pipelines to process data, train models, and deploy them to serve secure APIs using Python tools such as FastAPI.
By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to use various -of-the-art tools that will help you build production-ready systems, including FLAML for AutoML, PostgresML for operating ML pipelines using Postgres, high-performance distributed training and serving via Dask, and creating and running models in the Cloud with AWS Sagemaker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800563056
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/29/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Andrich van Wyk has 15 years of experience in machine learning R&D and building AI-driven solutions. He also has broad experience as a software engineer and architect with over a decade of industry experience working on enterprise systems. He graduated cum laude with an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria. His work focused on neural networks and population-based algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization and Honey-Bee Foraging. Andrich also writes about software and machine learning on his blog and his Substack. He currently resides in South Africa with his wife and daughter.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction Machine Learning and Decision Trees
2. Decision Tree Ensembles: Bagging and Boosting
3. An Overview of LightGBM in Python
4. LightGBM, XGBoost and Deep Learning
5. LightGBM Parameter Optimization and Tuning with Optuna
6. Solving Real World Problems with LightGBM
7. LightGBM AutoML with FLAML
8. Machine Learning Pipelines with LightGBM
9. Deploying LightGBM to AWS SageMaker
10. Deploying LightGBM with PostgresML
11. Distributed Training and Serving of LightGBM using Dask