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Infrastructure for Usable Machine Learning: The Stanford DAWN Project (arxiv.org)
1 point by blopeur on May 23, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Stanford's DAWN project maps the tools needed to build machine-learning apps end to end, covering data prep, labeling, launching, and monitoring. Its main claim: the bottleneck is missing software plumbing, not smarter models, which keeps such apps slow and costly to build.

Abstract

Despite incredible recent advances in machine learning, building machine learning applications remains prohibitively time-consuming and expensive for all but the best-trained, best-funded engineering organizations. This expense comes not from a need for new and improved statistical models but instead from a lack of systems and tools for supporting end-to-end machine learning application development, from data preparation and labeling to productionization and monitoring. In this document, we outline opportunities for infrastructure supporting usable, end-to-end machine learning applications in the context of the nascent DAWN (Data Analytics for What's Next) project at Stanford.

Peter Bailis, Kunle Olukotun, Christopher Re, Matei Zaharia
arXiv:1705.07538 · cs.LG, cs.DB, stat.ML · submitted May 22, 2017 · updated Jun 9, 2017
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