Training Natural Language Processing 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.

Natural Language Processing Models

Natural language processing (NLP) refers to the branch of computer science, and more specifically, the branch of artificial intelligence or AI-concerned with giving computers the ability to understand text and spoken words in much the same way human beings can. NLP combines computational linguistics-rule-based modeling of human language with statistical machine learning algorithms. NLP has been used in many applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, machine translation, and more.

Open source orchestrators like Prefect are one of the primary means by which companies train natural language processing 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.

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