In plain words: The survey collects accounts of machine learning systems going live in real businesses and sorts the problems they hit by the stage of deployment where they appear. Problems arise at every stage, not just model building, and the survey maps out what needs solving.
Abstract · Challenges in Deploying Machine Learning: a Survey of Case Studies
In recent years, machine learning has transitioned from a field of academic research interest to a field capable of solving real-world business problems. However, the deployment of machine learning models in production systems can present a number of issues and concerns. This survey reviews published reports of deploying machine learning solutions in a variety of use cases, industries and applications and extracts practical considerations corresponding to stages of the machine learning deployment workflow. By mapping found challenges to the steps of the machine learning deployment workflow we show that practitioners face issues at each stage of the deployment process. The goal of this paper is to lay out a research agenda to explore approaches addressing these challenges.
Andrei Paleyes, Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Neil D. Lawrence
arXiv:2011.09926 · cs.LG · submitted Nov 18, 2020 · updated May 19, 2022
abstract · pdf · html · v3 accepted to publication at ACM Computer Surveys in 2022; v2 presented at The ML-Retrospectives, Surveys & Meta-Analyses Workshop, NeurIPS 2020