AWS Machine Learning Blog
Category: Amazon SageMaker
Use the Amazon SageMaker local mode to train on your notebook instance
This blog post shows you how to use the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK local mode on a recently launched multi-GPU notebook instance type to quickly test a large scale image classification model.
Use the built-in Amazon SageMaker Random Cut Forest algorithm for anomaly detection
Today, we are launching support for Random Cut Forest (RCF) as the latest built-in algorithm for Amazon SageMaker. RCF is an unsupervised learning algorithm for detecting anomalous data points or outliers within a dataset. This blog post introduces the anomaly detection problem, describes the Amazon SageMaker RCF algorithm, and demonstrates the use of the Amazon […]
Text Classification with Gluon on Amazon SageMaker and AWS Batch
Our customer had a problem: The manual classification of warranty claims was causing a bottleneck. These claims were based on a text field that explained the event in short detail. An example of that text looked something like this: “The plutonium-fueled nuclear reactor overheated on a hot day in Arizona’s recent inclement weather. Burn damage […]
Train faster, more flexible models with Amazon SageMaker Linear Learner
Today Amazon SageMaker is launching several additional features to the built-in linear learner algorithm. Amazon SageMaker algorithms are designed to scale effortlessly to massive datasets and take advantage of the latest hardware optimizations for unparalleled speed. The Amazon SageMaker linear learner algorithm encompasses both linear regression and binary classification algorithms. These algorithms are used extensively in […]
Build a March Madness predictor application supported by Amazon SageMaker
What an opening round of March Madness basketball tournament games! We had a buzzer beater, some historic upsets, and exciting games throughout. The model built in our first blog post (Part 1) pointed out a few likely upset candidates (Loyola IL, Butler), but did not see some coming (Marshall, UMBC). I’m sure there will be […]
Create a Word-Pronunciation sequence-to-sequence model using Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker seq2seq offers you a very simple way to make use of the state-of-the-art encoder-decoder architecture (including the attention mechanism) for your sequence to sequence tasks. You just need to prepare your sequence data in recordio-protobuf format and your vocabulary mapping files in JSON format. Then you need to upload them to Amazon Simple […]
Mount an EFS file system to an Amazon SageMaker notebook (with lifecycle configurations)
In this blog post, we’ll show you how you can mount an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) to your Amazon SageMaker notebook instance. This is an easy way to store and access large datasets, and to share machine learning scripts from your SageMaker notebook instance. Amazon SageMaker notebooks provide fast access to your own instance running […]
Customize your Amazon SageMaker notebook instances with lifecycle configurations and the option to disable internet access
Amazon SageMaker provides fully managed instances running Jupyter Notebooks for data exploration and preprocessing. Customers really appreciate how easy it is to launch a pre-configured notebook instance with just one click. Today, we are making them more customizable by providing two new options: lifecycle configuration that helps automate the process of customizing your notebook instance, […]
Predict March Madness using Amazon Sagemaker
It’s mid-March and in the United States that can mean only one thing – it’s time for March Madness! Every year countless people fill out a bracket trying to pick which college basketball team will take it all. Do you have a favorite team to win in 2018? In this blog post, we’ll show you […]
Use Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics for real-time monitoring of Amazon Sagemaker model performance
The training and learning process of deep learning (DL) models can be expensive and time consuming. It’s important for data scientists to monitor the model metrics, such as the training accuracy, training loss, validation accuracy, and validation loss, and make informed decisions based on those metrics. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to […]