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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

Managing the model development life cycle

Managing the model life cycle is quite important when working in a team of more than one model developer. It’s quite usual for multiple model developers to try different models within the same project, and having a reviewer decide on the model that ends up going to production is quite important:

Figure 5.13 – Example of a model development life cycle

A model in its life cycle can undergo the following stages if using a life cycle similar to the one represented in Figure 5.13:

  • Development: The state where the model developer is still exploring and trying out different approaches and is still trying to find a reasonable solution to their machine learning problem.
  • Staging: The state where the model can be tested automatically with production-type traffic.
  • Production: When the model is ready to handle real-life production traffic.
  • Archive: When the model no longer serves the business...