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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

Chapter 4: Experiment Management in MLflow

In this chapter, we will give you practical experience with stock predictions by creating different models and comparing metrics of different runs in MLflow. You will be guided in terms of how to use the MLflow experiment method so that different machine learning practitioners can share metrics and improve on the same model.

Specifically, we will look at the following topics in this chapter:

  • Getting started with the experiments module
  • Defining the experiment
  • Adding experiments
  • Comparing different models
  • Tuning your model with hyperparameter optimization

At this stage, we currently have a baseline pipeline that acts based on a naïve heuristic. In this chapter, we will add to our set of skills the ability to experiment with multiple models and tune one specific model using MLflow.

We will be delving into our Psystock company use case of a stock trading machine learning platform introduced in...