The MachineLearning EngineerIssue #44

This week in Issue #44:

• Awesome Artificial Intelligence Guidelines List
• Simplifying Model Management with MLflow
• Choosing charts that everyone understands
• Machine Learning Explainability at AI O’Reilly
• 6-step process for building ML projects
• Featured OSS Production ML Libraries
• AI conferences
• + more 🚀

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Awesome AI Guidelines List

As AI systems become more prevalent in society, we face bigger and tougher societal and ethical challenges. Recently there has been an increase in content that attempts to address these challenges in the form of “Principles”, “Ethics Frameworks”, “Checklists” and beyond. Navigating through so many resources is not easy, which is why we created and now maintain “The Awesome AI Guidelines List”, a repository which maps the ecosystem of guidelines, principles, codes of ethics, standards, regulation, etc related to AI 🚀 if there is any guideline or framework which is not outlined please let us know or feel free to submit an issue / pull request!

MLFlow simplifying model mgmt

When dealing with production machine learning systems, we may face challenges that we won’t see in the experimentation stage. One of the key challenges is to manage a large number of machine learning models, potentially from various users, and being able to compare them and upgrade them into staging and production environments. Dataricks announced a new ML Management feature which tackles this issue by providing a workflow system to version and manage models across multiple stages.

Choosing intuitive visualisations

When dealing with challenges that involve a lot of data, it’s often hard to choose the best visualisations to use at different stages of the project. This post provides a set of best practices on how to approach this challenge, suggesting how to leverage complex charts for data analysis, and classic charts for communicating data. Furthermore they provide a case study / example of how this looks like in practice in their team.

ML Explainability at AI O’Reilly

When training complex models like neural networks, we obtain advantages in accuracy, but we face tradeoffs on explainability. Fortunately we have seen a recent increase in tools and methods that you can use to extract explanations from various types of machine learning models. Last week we gave a talk about the approaches and tools you can use to introduce interpretability techniques into your experimentation workflow. Furthermore we show how you can leverage explainability techniques in the production stage of your machine learning lifecycle.

Machine learning in 6 steps

There are many ways in which you can tackle building a machine learning model. This post proposes a 6-step approach towards building any machine learning model. It provides quite a reasonable breakdown that covers a reasonable amount of important pieces, from defining the problem, to identifying risks and high level, to questions around interpretability, tuning & inference time.

OSS: ML Deployment Libraries

The theme for this week’s featured ML libraries is Machine learning Deployment and Orchestration Libraries, and we’re happy to share brand new libraries into that section. The four featured libraries this week are:

• Seldon - Open source platform for deploying and monitoring machine learning models in kubernetes
• KFServing - Serverless framework to deploy and monitor machine learning models in Kubernetes
• Redis-AI - A Redis module for serving tensors and executing deep learning models. Expect changes in the API and internals.
• Model Server for Apache MXNet (MMS) - A model server for Apache MXNet from Amazon Web Services that is able to run MXNet models as well as Gluon models (Amazon’s SageMaker runs a custom version of MMS under the hood)

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!

MLConf = Conferences & Events

We feature conferences that have core ML tracks (primarily in Europe for now) to help our community stay up to date with great events coming up.

Technical & Scientific Conferences

• EURNLP 2019 [11/10/2019] - European NLP Research summit in London, UK.

• Data Natives [21/11/2019] - Data conference in Berlin, Germany.

• ODSC Europe [19/11/2019] - The Open Data Science Conference in London, UK.

• Khipu AI [11/11/2019] - Latin American Meeting in Artifical Intelligence in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Business Conferences

• Predictive Analytics World [18/11/2019] - Conference for Business AI in Berlin, Germany.

• Big Data LDN 2019 [13/11/2019] - Conference for strategy and tech on big data in London, UK.