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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 challenges with ML systems and projects

Implementing a product leveraging ML can be a laborious task as some new concepts need to be introduced in the book around best practices of ML systems architecture.

So far in this book, we have shown how MLflow can enable the everyday model developer to have a platform to manage the ML life cycle from iteration on model development up to storing their models on the model registry.

In summary, at this stage, we have managed to create a platform for the model developer to craft their models and publish the models in a central repository. This is the ideal stage to start unlocking potential in the business value of the models created. In an ML system, to make the leap from model development to a model in production, a change of mindset and approach is needed. After unlocking the value and crafting models, the exploitation phase begins, which is where having an ML systems architecture can set the tone of the deployments and operations...