The MachineLearning EngineerIssue #138

This week in Issue #138:

• EU AI Regulation Consultation
• Declarative ML Systems
• MLOps Event with Andrew Ng
• Feature Stores Review
• An Intro to Statistical Learning
• Open Source ML Frameworks
• Awesome AI Guidelines to check out this week
• + more 🚀

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EU AI Regulation Consultation

Our consultation submission for the European Commission’s AI Regulation Proposal has now been published! We are thrilled to have worked with such a fantastic team of thought leaders with the Association for Computing Machinery to contribute to such an important topic 🚀 In the submission we outline the need to better protect public health, safety, & privacy + leverage universal Informatics education to close “skills gap” with a diverse, AI-literate workforce.

Declarative ML Systems

Insightful article written by contributors from Ludwig and Overton, where they share their insights on motivations, concepts and learnings on the higher level topic they define as declarative machine learning systems.

MLOps Event with Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng started creating resources around MLOps including the online Coursera course. This week they are hosting a panel event where they will be diving deeper into what they refer as the area of data centric MLOps.

MLOps Feature Stores Review

An insightful article which is part of a longer MLOps series, which dives into feature distribution stores, and compares popular solutions such as Google Cloud services and open source frameworks like FEAST.

An Intro to Statistical Learning

Practitioners that are looking to enhance their core knowledge will be able to leverage the recently released book “An introduction to statistical learning”, which is available for free online as PDF version.

OSS: GPU Accel. Frameworks

The topic for this week’s featured production machine learning libraries is GPU Acceleration Frameworks. We are currently looking for more libraries to add - if you know of any that are not listed, please let us know or feel free to add a PR. The four featured libraries this week are:

• Vulkan Kompute - Blazing fast, lightweight and mobile phone-enabled GPU compute framework optimized for advanced data processing usecases.
• CuPy - An implementation of NumPy-compatible multi-dimensional array on CUDA. CuPy consists of the core multi-dimensional array class, cupy.ndarray, and many functions on it.
• Jax - Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
• CuDF - Built based on the Apache Arrow columnar memory format, cuDF is a GPU DataFrame library for loading, joining, aggregating, filtering, and otherwise manipulating data.

If you know of any libraries that are not in the “Awesome MLOps” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!

OSS: Awesome AI Guidelines

As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal challenges. We have seen a large number of resources that aim to takle these challenges in the form of AI Guidelines, Principles, Ethics Frameworks, etc, however there are so many resources it is hard to navigate. Because of this we started an Open Source initiative that aims to map the ecosystem to make it simpler to navigate. You can find multiple principles in the repo - some examples include the following:

• AI & Machine Learning 8 principles for Responsible ML - The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning has put together 8 principles for responsible machine learning that are to be adopted by individuals and delivery teams designing, building and operating machine learning systems
• An Evaluation of Guidelines - The Ethics of Ethics; A research paper that analyses multiple Ethics principles
• ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct - This is the code of ethics that has been put together in 1992 by the Association for Computer Machinery and updated in 2018
• From What to How - An initial review of publicly available AI Ethics Tools, Methods and Research to translate principles into practices

If you know of any guidelines that are not in the “Awesome AI Guidelines” list, please do give us a heads up or feel free to add a pull request!