preface
The goal of automated machine learning (AutoML) is to make machine learning (ML) accessible to everyone, including physicians, civil engineers, material scientists, and small business owners, as well as statisticians and computer scientists. This long-term vision is very similar to that of Microsoft Office—enabling normal users to easily create documents and prepare reports—and cameras in smartphones, facilitating convenient photos taken from anywhere at any time. Although the ML community has devoted a lot of R&D efforts to pursuing this goal, through our collaboration with domain experts and data scientists, we determined that there is a high demand to reveal the magic behind AutoML, including fundamental concepts, algorithms, and tools.