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Practical Deep Learning at Scale with MLflow

By : Yong Liu
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Book Image

Practical Deep Learning at Scale with MLflow

5 (1)
By: Yong Liu

Overview of this book

The book starts with an overview of the deep learning (DL) life cycle and the emerging Machine Learning Ops (MLOps) field, providing a clear picture of the four pillars of deep learning: data, model, code, and explainability and the role of MLflow in these areas. From there onward, it guides you step by step in understanding the concept of MLflow experiments and usage patterns, using MLflow as a unified framework to track DL data, code and pipelines, models, parameters, and metrics at scale. You’ll also tackle running DL pipelines in a distributed execution environment with reproducibility and provenance tracking, and tuning DL models through hyperparameter optimization (HPO) with Ray Tune, Optuna, and HyperBand. As you progress, you’ll learn how to build a multi-step DL inference pipeline with preprocessing and postprocessing steps, deploy a DL inference pipeline for production using Ray Serve and AWS SageMaker, and finally create a DL explanation as a service (EaaS) using the popular Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) toolbox. By the end of this book, you’ll have built the foundation and gained the hands-on experience you need to develop a DL pipeline solution from initial offline experimentation to final deployment and production, all within a reproducible and open source framework.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1 - Deep Learning Challenges and MLflow Prime
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Section 2 –
Tracking a Deep Learning Pipeline at Scale
7
Section 3 –
Running Deep Learning Pipelines at Scale
10
Section 4 –
Deploying a Deep Learning Pipeline at Scale
13
Section 5 – Deep Learning Model Explainability at Scale

Implementing an inference pipeline as a new entry point in the main MLproject

Now that we have successfully implemented a multi-step inference pipeline as a new custom MLflow model, we can go one step further by incorporating this as a new entry point in the main MLproject so that we can run the following entire pipeline end to end (Figure 7.8). Check out this chapter's code from GitHub to follow through and run the pipeline in your local environment.

Figure 7.8 – End-to-end pipeline using MLproject

We can add the new entry point inference_pipeline_model into the MLproject file. You can check out this file on the GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Deep-Learning-at-Scale-with-MLFlow/blob/main/chapter07/MLproject):

inference_pipeline_model:
    parameters:
      finetuned_model_run_id: { type: str, default: None }
    command: "python pipeline...