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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
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Section 3 –
Running Deep Learning Pipelines at Scale
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Section 4 –
Deploying a Deep Learning Pipeline at Scale
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Section 5 – Deep Learning Model Explainability at Scale

Chapter 10: Implementing DL Explainability with MLflow

The importance of deep learning (DL) explainability is now well established, as we learned in the previous chapter. In order to implement DL explainability in a real-world project, it is desirable to log the explainer and the explanations as artifacts, just like other model artifacts in the MLflow server, so that we can easily track and reproduce the explanation. The integration of DL explainability tools such as SHAP (https://github.com/slundberg/shap) with MLflow can support different implementation mechanisms, and it is important to understand how these integrations can be used for our DL explainability scenarios. In this chapter, we will explore several ways to integrate the SHAP explanations into MLflow by using different MLflow capabilities. As tools for explainability and DL models are both rapidly evolving, we will also highlight the current limitations and workarounds when using MLflow for DL explainability implementation...