Azure · harneetvirk · Apr 13, 2020 · Apr 13, 2020
diff --git a/configuration.ipynb b/configuration.ipynb
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
       "source": [
         "import azureml.core\n",
         "\n",
-        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.2.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
+        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.3.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
         "print(\"You are currently using version\", azureml.core.VERSION, \"of the Azure ML SDK\")"
       ]
     },

diff --git a/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/README.md b/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/README.md
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ jupyter notebook
     - Simple example of using automated ML for regression
     - Uses azure compute for training
 
-- [auto-ml-regression-hardware-performance-explanation-and-featurization.ipynb](regression-hardware-performance-explanation-and-featurization/auto-ml-regression-hardware-performance-explanation-and-featurization.ipynb)
+- [auto-ml-regression-explanation-featurization.ipynb](regression-explanation-featurization/auto-ml-regression-explanation-featurization.ipynb)
     - Dataset: Hardware Performance Dataset
     - Shows featurization and excplanation
     - Uses azure compute for training
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jupyter notebook
     - Beer Production Forecasting
 
 - [auto-ml-continuous-retraining.ipynb](continuous-retraining/auto-ml-continuous-retraining.ipynb)
-    - Continous retraining using Pipelines and Time-Series TabularDataset
+    - Continuous retraining using Pipelines and Time-Series TabularDataset
 
 - [auto-ml-classification-text-dnn.ipynb](classification-text-dnn/auto-ml-classification-text-dnn.ipynb)
     - Classification with text data using deep learning in AutoML

diff --git a/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/automl_env.yml b/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/automl_env.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ dependencies:
   - azureml-train
   - azureml-widgets
   - azureml-pipeline
-  - azureml-contrib-interpret
   - pytorch-transformers==1.0.0
   - spacy==2.1.8
   - onnxruntime==1.0.0

diff --git a/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/automl_env_mac.yml b/how-to-use-azureml/automated-machine-learning/automl_env_mac.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ dependencies:
   - azureml-train
   - azureml-widgets
   - azureml-pipeline
-  - azureml-contrib-interpret
   - pytorch-transformers==1.0.0
   - spacy==2.1.8
   - onnxruntime==1.0.0
@@ -36,4 +35,4 @@ dependencies:
 channels:
 - anaconda
 - conda-forge
-- pytorch
+- pytorch
diff --git a/...tion-bank-marketing-all-features/auto-ml-classification-bank-marketing-all-features.ipynb b/...tion-bank-marketing-all-features/auto-ml-classification-bank-marketing-all-features.ipynb
@@ -92,6 +92,23 @@
         "from azureml.explain.model._internal.explanation_client import ExplanationClient"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {},
+      "source": [
+        "This sample notebook may use features that are not available in previous versions of the Azure ML SDK."
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "metadata": {},
+      "outputs": [],
+      "source": [
+        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.3.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
+        "print(\"You are currently using version\", azureml.core.VERSION, \"of the Azure ML SDK\")"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "cell_type": "markdown",
       "metadata": {},
@@ -132,7 +149,6 @@
         "experiment=Experiment(ws, experiment_name)\n",
         "\n",
         "output = {}\n",
-        "output['SDK version'] = azureml.core.VERSION\n",
         "output['Subscription ID'] = ws.subscription_id\n",
         "output['Workspace'] = ws.name\n",
         "output['Resource Group'] = ws.resource_group\n",
@@ -160,35 +176,22 @@
       "metadata": {},
       "outputs": [],
       "source": [
-        "from azureml.core.compute import AmlCompute\n",
-        "from azureml.core.compute import ComputeTarget\n",
+        "from azureml.core.compute import ComputeTarget, AmlCompute\n",
+        "from azureml.core.compute_target import ComputeTargetException\n",
         "\n",
-        "# Choose a name for your cluster.\n",
-        "amlcompute_cluster_name = \"cpu-cluster-4\"\n",
+        "# Choose a name for your CPU cluster\n",
+        "cpu_cluster_name = \"cpu-cluster-4\"\n",
         "\n",
-        "found = False\n",
-        "# Check if this compute target already exists in the workspace.\n",
-        "cts = ws.compute_targets\n",
-        "if amlcompute_cluster_name in cts and cts[amlcompute_cluster_name].type == 'AmlCompute':\n",
-        "    found = True\n",
-        "    print('Found existing compute target.')\n",
-        "    compute_target = cts[amlcompute_cluster_name]\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "if not found:\n",
-        "    print('Creating a new compute target...')\n",
-        "    provisioning_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size = \"STANDARD_D2_V2\", # for GPU, use \"STANDARD_NC6\"\n",
-        "                                                                #vm_priority = 'lowpriority', # optional\n",
-        "                                                                max_nodes = 6)\n",
-        "\n",
-        "    # Create the cluster.\n",
-        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, amlcompute_cluster_name, provisioning_config)\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "print('Checking cluster status...')\n",
-        "# Can poll for a minimum number of nodes and for a specific timeout.\n",
-        "# If no min_node_count is provided, it will use the scale settings for the cluster.\n",
-        "compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output = True, min_node_count = None, timeout_in_minutes = 20)\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "# For a more detailed view of current AmlCompute status, use get_status()."
+        "# Verify that cluster does not exist already\n",
+        "try:\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget(workspace=ws, name=cpu_cluster_name)\n",
+        "    print('Found existing cluster, use it.')\n",
+        "except ComputeTargetException:\n",
+        "    compute_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size='STANDARD_D2_V2',\n",
+        "                                                           max_nodes=6)\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, cpu_cluster_name, compute_config)\n",
+        "\n",
+        "compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output=True)"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -394,8 +397,6 @@
       "outputs": [],
       "source": [
         "#from azureml.train.automl.run import AutoMLRun\n",
-        "#experiment_name = 'automl-classification-bmarketing'\n",
-        "#experiment = Experiment(ws, experiment_name)\n",
         "#remote_run = AutoMLRun(experiment=experiment, run_id='<run_ID_goes_here')\n",
         "#remote_run"
       ]

diff --git a/...cation-bank-marketing-all-features/auto-ml-classification-bank-marketing-all-features.yml b/...cation-bank-marketing-all-features/auto-ml-classification-bank-marketing-all-features.yml
@@ -6,5 +6,3 @@ dependencies:
   - azureml-widgets
   - matplotlib
   - onnxruntime==1.0.0
-  - azureml-explain-model
-  - azureml-contrib-interpret
diff --git a/...-learning/classification-credit-card-fraud/auto-ml-classification-credit-card-fraud.ipynb b/...-learning/classification-credit-card-fraud/auto-ml-classification-credit-card-fraud.ipynb
@@ -80,6 +80,23 @@
         "from azureml.train.automl import AutoMLConfig"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {},
+      "source": [
+        "This sample notebook may use features that are not available in previous versions of the Azure ML SDK."
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "metadata": {},
+      "outputs": [],
+      "source": [
+        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.3.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
+        "print(\"You are currently using version\", azureml.core.VERSION, \"of the Azure ML SDK\")"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "cell_type": "code",
       "execution_count": null,
@@ -94,7 +111,6 @@
         "experiment=Experiment(ws, experiment_name)\n",
         "\n",
         "output = {}\n",
-        "output['SDK version'] = azureml.core.VERSION\n",
         "output['Subscription ID'] = ws.subscription_id\n",
         "output['Workspace'] = ws.name\n",
         "output['Resource Group'] = ws.resource_group\n",

diff --git a/...ne-learning/classification-credit-card-fraud/auto-ml-classification-credit-card-fraud.yml b/...ne-learning/classification-credit-card-fraud/auto-ml-classification-credit-card-fraud.yml
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ dependencies:
   - azureml-train-automl
   - azureml-widgets
   - matplotlib
-  - azureml-explain-model
diff --git a/.../automated-machine-learning/classification-text-dnn/auto-ml-classification-text-dnn.ipynb b/.../automated-machine-learning/classification-text-dnn/auto-ml-classification-text-dnn.ipynb
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@
         "Notebook synopsis:\n",
         "1. Creating an Experiment in an existing Workspace\n",
         "2. Configuration and remote run of AutoML for a text dataset (20 Newsgroups dataset from scikit-learn) for classification\n",
-        "3. Evaluating the final model on a test set\n",
-        "4. Deploying the model on ACI"
+        "3. Registering the best model for future use\n",
+        "4. Evaluating the final model on a test set"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -84,6 +84,23 @@
         "from sklearn.datasets import fetch_20newsgroups"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {},
+      "source": [
+        "This sample notebook may use features that are not available in previous versions of the Azure ML SDK."
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "metadata": {},
+      "outputs": [],
+      "source": [
+        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.3.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
+        "print(\"You are currently using version\", azureml.core.VERSION, \"of the Azure ML SDK\")"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "cell_type": "markdown",
       "metadata": {},
@@ -105,7 +122,6 @@
         "experiment = Experiment(ws, experiment_name)\n",
         "\n",
         "output = {}\n",
-        "output['SDK version'] = azureml.core.VERSION\n",
         "output['Subscription ID'] = ws.subscription_id\n",
         "output['Workspace Name'] = ws.name\n",
         "output['Resource Group'] = ws.resource_group\n",
@@ -132,34 +148,25 @@
       "metadata": {},
       "outputs": [],
       "source": [
+        "from azureml.core.compute import ComputeTarget, AmlCompute\n",
+        "from azureml.core.compute_target import ComputeTargetException\n",
+        "\n",
         "# Choose a name for your cluster.\n",
         "amlcompute_cluster_name = \"dnntext-cluster\"\n",
         "\n",
-        "found = False\n",
-        "# Check if this compute target already exists in the workspace.\n",
-        "cts = ws.compute_targets\n",
-        "if amlcompute_cluster_name in cts and cts[amlcompute_cluster_name].type == 'AmlCompute':\n",
-        "    found = True\n",
-        "    print('Found existing compute target.')\n",
-        "    compute_target = cts[amlcompute_cluster_name]\n",
-        "\n",
-        "if not found:\n",
-        "    print('Creating a new compute target...')\n",
-        "    provisioning_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size = \"STANDARD_NC6\", # CPU for BiLSTM, such as \"STANDARD_D2_V2\" \n",
-        "                                                                # To use BERT (this is recommended for best performance), select a GPU such as \"STANDARD_NC6\" \n",
-        "                                                                # or similar GPU option\n",
-        "                                                                # available in your workspace\n",
-        "                                                                max_nodes = 1)\n",
-        "\n",
-        "    # Create the cluster\n",
-        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, amlcompute_cluster_name, provisioning_config)\n",
-        "\n",
-        "print('Checking cluster status...')\n",
-        "# Can poll for a minimum number of nodes and for a specific timeout.\n",
-        "# If no min_node_count is provided, it will use the scale settings for the cluster.\n",
-        "compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output = True, min_node_count = None, timeout_in_minutes = 20)\n",
+        "# Verify that cluster does not exist already\n",
+        "try:\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget(workspace=ws, name=amlcompute_cluster_name)\n",
+        "    print('Found existing cluster, use it.')\n",
+        "except ComputeTargetException:\n",
+        "    compute_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size = \"STANDARD_NC6\", # CPU for BiLSTM, such as \"STANDARD_D2_V2\" \n",
+        "                                                           # To use BERT (this is recommended for best performance), select a GPU such as \"STANDARD_NC6\" \n",
+        "                                                           # or similar GPU option\n",
+        "                                                           # available in your workspace\n",
+        "                                                           max_nodes = 1)\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, amlcompute_cluster_name, compute_config)\n",
         "\n",
-        "# For a more detailed view of current AmlCompute status, use get_status()."
+        "compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output=True)"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -373,8 +380,8 @@
       "cell_type": "markdown",
       "metadata": {},
       "source": [
-        "### Deploying the model\n",
-        "We now use the best fitted model from the AutoML Run to make predictions on the test set.  "
+        "### Registering the best model\n",
+        "We now register the best fitted model from the AutoML Run for use in future deployments.  "
       ]
     },
     {

diff --git a/...reml/automated-machine-learning/continuous-retraining/auto-ml-continuous-retraining.ipynb b/...reml/automated-machine-learning/continuous-retraining/auto-ml-continuous-retraining.ipynb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
       "metadata": {},
       "source": [
         "# Automated Machine Learning \n",
-        "**Continous retraining using Pipelines and Time-Series TabularDataset**\n",
+        "**Continuous retraining using Pipelines and Time-Series TabularDataset**\n",
         "## Contents\n",
         "1. [Introduction](#Introduction)\n",
         "2. [Setup](#Setup)\n",
@@ -75,6 +75,23 @@
         "from azureml.train.automl import AutoMLConfig"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {},
+      "source": [
+        "This sample notebook may use features that are not available in previous versions of the Azure ML SDK."
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "metadata": {},
+      "outputs": [],
+      "source": [
+        "print(\"This notebook was created using version 1.3.0 of the Azure ML SDK\")\n",
+        "print(\"You are currently using version\", azureml.core.VERSION, \"of the Azure ML SDK\")"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "cell_type": "markdown",
       "metadata": {},
@@ -112,7 +129,6 @@
         "experiment = Experiment(ws, experiment_name)\n",
         "\n",
         "output = {}\n",
-        "output['SDK version'] = azureml.core.VERSION\n",
         "output['Subscription ID'] = ws.subscription_id\n",
         "output['Workspace'] = ws.name\n",
         "output['Resource Group'] = ws.resource_group\n",
@@ -143,33 +159,22 @@
       "metadata": {},
       "outputs": [],
       "source": [
-        "from azureml.core.compute import AmlCompute, ComputeTarget\n",
+        "from azureml.core.compute import ComputeTarget, AmlCompute\n",
+        "from azureml.core.compute_target import ComputeTargetException\n",
         "\n",
-        "# Choose a name for your cluster.\n",
-        "amlcompute_cluster_name = \"cpu-cluster-42\"\n",
+        "# Choose a name for your CPU cluster\n",
+        "amlcompute_cluster_name = \"cont-cluster\"\n",
         "\n",
-        "found = False\n",
-        "# Check if this compute target already exists in the workspace.\n",
-        "cts = ws.compute_targets\n",
-        "if amlcompute_cluster_name in cts and cts[amlcompute_cluster_name].type == 'AmlCompute':\n",
-        "    found = True\n",
-        "    print('Found existing compute target.')\n",
-        "    compute_target = cts[amlcompute_cluster_name]\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "if not found:\n",
-        "    print('Creating a new compute target...')\n",
-        "    provisioning_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size = \"STANDARD_D2_V2\", # for GPU, use \"STANDARD_NC6\"\n",
-        "                                                                #vm_priority = 'lowpriority', # optional\n",
-        "                                                                max_nodes = 4)\n",
+        "# Verify that cluster does not exist already\n",
+        "try:\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget(workspace=ws, name=amlcompute_cluster_name)\n",
+        "    print('Found existing cluster, use it.')\n",
+        "except ComputeTargetException:\n",
+        "    compute_config = AmlCompute.provisioning_configuration(vm_size='STANDARD_D2_V2',\n",
+        "                                                           max_nodes=4)\n",
+        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, amlcompute_cluster_name, compute_config)\n",
         "\n",
-        "    # Create the cluster.\n",
-        "    compute_target = ComputeTarget.create(ws, amlcompute_cluster_name, provisioning_config)\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "    # Can poll for a minimum number of nodes and for a specific timeout.\n",
-        "    # If no min_node_count is provided, it will use the scale settings for the cluster.\n",
-        "    compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output = True, min_node_count = 0, timeout_in_minutes = 10)\n",
-        "    \n",
-        "     # For a more detailed view of current AmlCompute status, use get_status()."
+        "compute_target.wait_for_completion(show_output=True)"
       ]
     },
     {