NEXT DATA SCIENCE NIGHT: SePT 25

6.15 p.m.         Pizza
6.30 p.m.        Presentation of IBM Developer Advocate Svetlana Levitan:
                               Open standards for machine learning model deployment
7.00 p.m -       Project and Learning Groups

Open standards for machine learning model deployment, by Svetlana Levitan

Machine learning and data science are in popular demand. Predictive model deployment is the part of the machine learning process where the practical results are achieved, when the model is used for generating predictions on new data (known as scoring). The deployment used to present big difficulties, as models were typically built in one environment and needed to be deployed in a different one. Often they would need to be re-implemented in a new programming language, that would be very slow and error-prone.
Join us to learn about open standards that have made the process of model deployment easier. Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) and Portable Format for Analytics (PFA) were developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG). PMML has been around for more than 20 years and is used widely. PFA is an emerging standard that is getting a lot of interest. Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) format was recently developed by Microsoft and Facebook as a way to exchange deep learning (DL) models between different DL frameworks, then it was open sourced. It is now very actively worked on by many companies and contributors. Attendees will get a good understanding of predictive model deployment challenges and approaches.

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