Training Machine Learning Models using Prefect

Prefect

Prefect is an open-source workflow management system that allows you to build, schedule, and monitor data workflows. It enables you to transform any Python function into a unit of work that can be observed and orchestrated. Prefect can be used for various use cases such as ETL pipelines, machine learning workflows, data warehousing, and more. It has a dynamic engine and ephemeral API that makes it easy to run workflows interactively during the building phase. Prefect also offers the ability to cache and persist inputs and outputs for large files and expensive operations, improving development time when debugging.

Machine Learning Models

Machine learning models are computer programs that are used to recognize patterns in data or make predictions. They are created from machine learning algorithms, which are trained using either labeled, unlabeled, or mixed data. Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which is broadly defined as the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior. Machine learning is popular because it gives enterprises a view of trends in customer behavior and business operational patterns, as well as supports the development of new products. Many of today's leading companies, such as Meta, Google and Uber, make machine learning a central part of their operations. Machine learning is also popular because computation is abundant and cheap. Abundant and cheap computation has driven the abundance of data we are collecting and therefore the increase in capability of machine learning methods.
Open source orchestrators like Prefect are one of the primary means by which companies train machine learning models in production. Prefect offers a mechanism to schedule and monitor these jobs as part of more complex workflow graphs. Kaspian has a native operator for Prefect; this operator makes it easy to either swap to or get started with training pipelines that utilize Kaspian's flexible compute layer, with native support for autoscaling, GPU acceleration, and more.
Learn more about Kaspian and see how our flexible compute layer for the modern data cloud is already reshaping the way companies in industries like retail, manufacturing and logistics are thinking about data engineering and analytics.

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