MLflow VS Sacred

While Transformers already includes integration with MLflow, users still have to provide their own MLflow server, either locally or on a Cloud provider. And that can be a bit of a pain.

I have an old labmate who uses a similar setup with MLFlow and can endorse it.

MLflow - an open-source platform for managing your ML lifecycle. What’s great is that they also support popular Python libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and R.

even for people who don't have an ML background there's now a lot of very fully-featured model deployment environments that allow self-hosting (kubeflow has a good self-hosting option, as do mlflow and metaflow), handle most of the complicated stuff involved in just deploying an individual model, and work pretty well off the shelf.

Here, we’ll implement the experimentation workflow using DagsHub, Google Colab, MLflow, and data version control (DVC). We’ll focus on how to do this without diving deep into the technicalities of building or designing a workbench from scratch. Going that route might increase the complexity involved, especially if you are in the early stages of understanding ML workflows, just working on a small project, or trying to implement a proof of concept.

MLflow

I am seeing growing demand for MLflow (https://mlflow.org/) and I am seeing a lot of people looking at Databricks as commercial offering for MLflow. Alternatively, some popele are implementing something like Managing your Machine Learning lifecycle with MLflow. Therefore, I think this was on my wish list last year, but I really hope AWS announce a Managed MLFlow Service. I know version 2.X is too new but at least 1.X would be great start.

🔗 https://mlflow.org

She made mentions to ML-Ops and MLFlow including Vertex AI the GCP implementation. I will post the video as soon as it is available. In the meantime, you can enjoy any other talk from Nerea Luis

🔗 https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred

I'm using Omniboard (https://github.com/vivekratnavel/omniboard) with Sacred (https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) for tracking experiments. You can specify custom Observers in Sacred so the model metrics and logs will be saved to a local directory or to a remote DB (e.g., MongoDB). I use a MongoDB database hosted on Atlas. Unlike other suggested options, Sacred and Omniboard are free. Atlas free tier comes with 512MB of free storage which is a huge amount if you're uploading only log files to it.

I'm using Omniboard (https://github.com/vivekratnavel/omniboard) with Sacred (https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) for tracking experiments. You can specify custom Observers in Sacred so the model metrics and logs will be saved to a local directory or to a remote DB (e.g., MongoDB). I use a MongoDB database hosted on Atlas. Unlike other suggested options, Sacred and Omniboard are free. Atlas free tier comes with 512MB of free storage which is a huge amount if you're uploading only log files to it. ex = Experiment() ex.observers.append(FileStorageObserver(EXPERIMENTS_ROOT)) ex.observers.append(MongoObserver(url=MONGODB_URL, db_name='sacred'))

For 1, setup an experiment tracking framework. I found Sacred to be helpful https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred.