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Deep Lake: A Lakehouse for Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Deep Lake stores images, videos, and annotations as tensors (number grids) in a data lake, so they can be queried, viewed in a browser, and streamed to training. Unlike ordinary data lakes built for tables, it feeds deep learning frameworks without wasting GPU time.

Abstract · Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning

Traditional data lakes provide critical data infrastructure for analytical workloads by enabling time travel, running SQL queries, ingesting data with ACID transactions, and visualizing petabyte-scale datasets on cloud storage. They allow organizations to break down data silos, unlock data-driven decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs. However, as deep learning usage increases, traditional data lakes are not well-designed for applications such as natural language processing (NLP), audio processing, computer vision, and applications involving non-tabular datasets. This paper presents Deep Lake, an open-source lakehouse for deep learning applications developed at Activeloop. Deep Lake maintains the benefits of a vanilla data lake with one key difference: it stores complex data, such as images, videos, annotations, as well as tabular data, in the form of tensors and rapidly streams the data over the network to (a) Tensor Query Language, (b) in-browser visualization engine, or (c) deep learning frameworks without sacrificing GPU utilization. Datasets stored in Deep Lake can be accessed from PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and integrate with numerous MLOps tools.

Sasun Hambardzumyan, Abhinav Tuli, Levon Ghukasyan, Fariz Rahman, Hrant Topchyan, David Isayan, Mark McQuade, Mikayel Harutyunyan, Tatevik Hakobyan, Ivo Stranic, Davit Buniatyan
arXiv:2209.10785 · cs.DC, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.DB · submitted Sep 22, 2022 · updated Dec 14, 2022
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