pachyderm VS label-studio

20. Pachyderm | Github | tutorial

Pachyderm specializes in creating compliance-focused pipelines that integrate with enterprise-level storage solutions.

There are a couple of other contenders in this space. DVC (https://dvc.org/) seems most similar.

If you're interested in something you can self-host... I work on Pachyderm (https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm), which doesn't have a Git-like interface, but also implements data versioning. Our approach de-duplicates between files (even very small files), and our storage algorithm doesn't create objects proportional to O(n) directory nesting depth as Xet appears to. (Xet is very much like Git in that respect.)

The data versioning system enables us to run pipelines based on changes to your data; the pipelines declare what files they read, and that allows us to schedule processing jobs that only reprocess new or changed data, while still giving you a full view of what "would" have happened if all the data had been reprocessed. This, to me, is the key advantage of data versioning; you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars on compute. Being able to undo an oopsie is just icing on the cake.

Xet's system for mounting a remote repo as a filesystem is a good idea. We do that too :)

Pachyderm - License prevents competition.

I was at Airbnb when we open-sourced Airflow, it was a great solution to the problems we had at the time. It's amazing how many more use cases people have found for it since then. At the time it was pretty focused on solving our problem of orchestrating a largely static DAG of SQL jobs. It could do other stuff even then, but that was mostly what we were using it for. Airflow has become a victim of its success as it's expanded to meet every problem which could ever be considered a data workflow. The flaws and horror stories in the post and comments here definitely resonate with me. Around the time Airflow was opensource I starting working on data-centric approach to workflow management called Pachyderm[0]. By data-centric I mean that it's focused around the data itself, and its storage, versioning, orchestration and lineage. This leads to a system that feels radically different from a job focused system like Airflow. In a data-centric system your spaghetti nest of DAGs is greatly simplified as the data itself is used to describe most of the complexity. The benefit is that data is a lot simpler to reason about, it's not a living thing that needs to run in a certain way, it just exists, and because it's versioned you have strong guarantees about how it can change.

[0] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

Here is a demo run of lgtm on pachyderm

If instead you have a cohort on hand — -i.e., you do not want to send your data to a third party for any reason, or perhaps you have energetic undergrads — -then you could alternatively consider local, open-source annotation such as CVAT and Label Studio. Finally, nowadays, you might instead work with Large Multimodal Models to have them annotate your data; more on this awkward angle later.

14. LabelStudio by Human Signal | Github | tutorial

For instance, the COCO Annotator is a web-based image annotation tool tailored for the COCO dataset format, allowing collaborative labeling with features like attribute tagging and automatic segmentation. Similarly, Label Studio offers an easy-to-use interface for bounding box object labeling in images.

Huh?

I wrote my own system for classifying a stream of texts in Python, I might Open Source it one of these days but I have to get it to the point where it is modular enough that I can customize it to do the particular things I want without subjecting people to my whims... I use it every day and I'm not afraid to demo it because it is rock solid.

My understanding is that my system would not be hard to adapt to work on images for certain kinds of tasks.

Pytorch is open source, Huggingface is open source. CUDA isn't. This is

https://labelstud.io/

and for annotating text spans there are so many open source tools

https://github.com/doccano/doccano

I worked for a company a few years back that built annotation tools for projects we sold to customers but never quite got to a polished general purpose annotator. Today there are an overwhelming number of companies in this space and products I never heard of, many of which are cloud based or paid. Looks like a gold rush to me.

LabelStudio is free for single use. https://labelstud.io/

LabelStudio is pretty nice, and free & open source, but I have yet to try out their ML integration with a YOLO object detection model.

Label Studio is an open source data labeling tool that includes annotation functionality. It provides a simple user interface (UI) that lets you label various data types, including text, audio, time series data, videos, and images, and export the information to various model formats.