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Machine Learning Engineering with MLflow

By : Natu Lauchande
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Book Image

Machine Learning Engineering with MLflow

2 (1)
By: Natu Lauchande

Overview of this book

MLflow is a platform for the machine learning life cycle that enables structured development and iteration of machine learning models and a seamless transition into scalable production environments. This book will take you through the different features of MLflow and how you can implement them in your ML project. You will begin by framing an ML problem and then transform your solution with MLflow, adding a workbench environment, training infrastructure, data management, model management, experimentation, and state-of-the-art ML deployment techniques on the cloud and premises. The book also explores techniques to scale up your workflow as well as performance monitoring techniques. As you progress, you’ll discover how to create an operational dashboard to manage machine learning systems. Later, you will learn how you can use MLflow in the AutoML, anomaly detection, and deep learning context with the help of use cases. In addition to this, you will understand how to use machine learning platforms for local development as well as for cloud and managed environments. This book will also show you how to use MLflow in non-Python-based languages such as R and Java, along with covering approaches to extend MLflow with Plugins. By the end of this machine learning book, you will be able to produce and deploy reliable machine learning algorithms using MLflow in multiple environments.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Problem Framing and Introductions
4
Section 2: Model Development and Experimentation
8
Section 3: Machine Learning in Production
13
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Understanding the value of a data science workbench

A data science workbench is an environment to standardize the machine learning tools and practices of an organization, allowing for rapid onboarding and development of models and analytics. One critical machine learning engineering function is to support data science practitioners with tools that empower and accelerate their day-to-day activities.

In a data science team, the ability to rapidly test multiple approaches and techniques is paramount. Every day, new libraries and open source tools are created. It is common for a project to need more than a dozen libraries in order to test a new type of model. These multitudes of libraries, if not collated correctly, might cause bugs or incompatibilities in the model.

Data is at the center of a data science workflow. Having clean datasets available for developing and evaluating models is critical. With an abundance of huge datasets, specialized big data tooling is necessary to process...