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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)
1
Section 1 - Deep Learning Challenges and MLflow Prime
4
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

Chapter 2: Getting Started with MLflow for Deep Learning

One of the key capabilities of MLflow is to enable Machine Learning (ML) experiment management. This is critical because data science requires reproducibility and traceability so that a Deep Learning (DL) model can be easily reproduced with the same data, code, and execution environment. This chapter will help us get started with how to implement DL experiment management quickly. We will learn about MLflow experiment management concepts and capabilities, set up an MLflow development environment, and complete our first DL experiment using MLflow. By the end of this chapter, we will have a working MLflow tracking server showing our first DL experiment results.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Setting up MLflow
  • Implementing our first MLflow logging-enabled DL experiment
  • Exploring MLflow's components and usage patterns