whylogs VS Activeloop Hub

whylogs — model monitoring

Have a look at whylogs. Nice profiling functionality incl. definition of constraints on profiles: https://github.com/whylabs/whylogs

WhyLabs has an open-source first approach. We maintain an open standard for data and ML logging https://github.com/whylabs/whylogs, which allows anybody to begin logging statistical properties of data in their data pipeline, ML inference, feature stores, etc. These statistical profiles capture all the key signals to enable observability in a given component. This unique approach means that we can run a fully SaaS service, which allows for huge scalability (in both the size of models and their number), and ensures that our customers are able to maintain their data autonomy. We maintain a huge array of integrations for whylogs, including Python, Spark, Kafka, Ray, Flask, MLflow, Kubeflow, etc… Once the profiles are captured systematically, they are centralized in the WhyLabs platform, where we organize them, run forecasting and anomaly detection on each metric, and surface alerts to users. The platform itself has a zero-config design philosophy, meaning all monitoring configurations can be set up using smart baselines and require no manual configuration. The TL;DR here is the focus on open source integrations, working with data at massive/streaming scale, and removing manual effort from maintaining configuration.

This is why we've been trying to encourage people to think about lightweight data logging as a mitigation for data quality problems. Similar to how we monitor applications with Prometheus, we should approach ML monitoring with the same rigor.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors. We spend a lot of effort to build the standard for data logging here: https://github.com/whylabs/whylogs. It's meant to be a lightweight and open standard for collecting statistical signatures of your data without having to run SQL/expensive analysis.

Hey u/platoTheSloth, as u/gopietz mentioned (thanks a lot for the shout-out!!!), you can share them with the general public through uploading to Activeloop Platform (for researchers, we offer special terms, but even as a general public member you get up to 300GBs of free storage!). Thanks to our open source dataset format for AI, Hub, anyone can load the dataset in under 3seconds with one line of code, and stream it while training in PyTorch/TensorFlow.

u/Remote_Cancel_7977 we just launched 100+ computer vision datasets via Activeloop Hub yesterday on r/ML (#1 post for the day!). Note: we do not intend to compete with HuggingFace (we're building the database for AI). Accessing computer vision datasets via Hub is much faster than via HuggingFace though, according to some third-party benchmarks. :)

u/gopietz good question. htype="class_label" will work, but querying doesn't support multi-dimensional labels yet. Would you mind opening an issue requesting that feature?

Hi HN,

In machine learning, we are faced with tensor-based computations (that's the language that ML models think in). I've recently discovered a project that helps you make it much easier to set up and conduct machine learning projects, and enables you to create and store datasets in deep learning-native format.

Hub by Activeloop (https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub) is an open-source Python package that arranges data in Numpy-like arrays. It integrates smoothly with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch for faster GPU processing and training. In addition, one can update the data stored in the cloud, create machine learning pipelines using Hub API and interact with datasets (e.g. visualize) in Activeloop platform (https://app.activeloop.ai). The real benefit for me is that, I can stream my datasets without the need to store them on my machine (my datasets can be up to 10GB+ big, but it works just as well with 100GB+ datasets like ImageNet (https://docs.activeloop.ai/datasets/imagenet-dataset), for instance).

Hub allows us to store images, audio, video data in a way that can be accessed at lightning speed. The data can be stored on GCS/S3 buckets, local storage, or on Activeloop cloud. The data can directly be used in the training TensorFlow/ PyTorch models so that you don't need to set up data pipelines. The package also comes with data version control, dataset search queries, and distributed workloads.

For me, personally the simplicity of the API stands out, for instance:

Loading datasets in seconds

  import hub ds = hub.load("hub://activeloop/cifar10-train")

Hub by Activeloop (https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub) is an open-source Python package that arranges data in Numpy-like arrays. It integrates smoothly with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and PyTorch for faster GPU processing and training. In addition, one can update the data stored in the cloud, create machine learning pipelines using Hub API and interact with datasets (e.g. visualize) in Activeloop platform (https://app.activeloop.ai/3)

Consider this

Please take a look at our open-source dataset format https://github.com/activeloopai/hub and a tutorial on htypes https://docs.activeloop.ai/how-hub-works/visualization-and-htype

I'm Davit from Activeloop (activeloop.ai).

Hub.

What solution have you used that you like as a data scientist when working with large datasets? Any standard python API to access the data? Other solution? If anyone has used https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub or other similar API I'd be interested to hear your experience working with it!