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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)
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Section 1: Problem Framing and Introductions
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Section 2: Model Development and Experimentation
8
Section 3: Machine Learning in Production
13
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Exploring model flavors in MLflow

Model flavors in MLflow are basically the different models of different libraries supported by MLflow. This functionality allows MLflow to handle the model types with native libraries of each specific model and support some of the native functionalities of the models. The following list presents a selection of representative models to describe and illustrate the support available in MLflow:

  • mlflow.tensorflow: TensorFlow is by far one of the most used libraries, particularly geared toward deep learning. MLflow integrates natively with the model format and the monitoring abilities by saving logs in TensorBoard formats. Auto-logging is supported in MLflow for TensorFlow models. The Keras model in Figure 5.5 is a good example of TensorFlow support in MLflow.
  • mlflow.h2o: H2O is a complete machine learning platform geared toward the automation of models and with some overlapping features with MLflow. MLflow provides the ability to load (load_model...