Introduction to Machine Learning in Production (Coursera)

Offered by DeepLearning.AI,
Introduction to Machine Learning in Production (Coursera)

In the first course of Machine Learning Engineering for Production Specialization, you will identify the various components and design an ML production system end-to-end: project scoping, data needs, modeling strategies, and deployment constraints and requirements; and learn how to establish a model baseline, address concept drift, and prototype the process for developing, deploying, and continuously improving a productionized ML application.

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Understanding machine learning and deep learning concepts is essential, but if you’re looking to build an effective AI career, you need production engineering capabilities as well. Machine learning engineering for production combines the foundational concepts of machine learning with the functional expertise of modern software development and engineering roles to help you develop production-ready skills.

What You Will Learn

  • Identify the key components of the ML lifecycle and pipeline and compare the ML modeling iterative cycle with the ML product deployment cycle.
  • Understand how performance on a small set of disproportionately important examples may be more crucial than performance on the majority of examples.
  • Solve problems for structured, unstructured, small, and big data. Understand why label consistency is essential and how you can improve it.

Course 1 of 4 in the Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Overview of the ML Lifecycle and Deployment
This week covers a quick introduction to machine learning production systems focusing on their requirements and challenges. Next, the week focuses on deploying production systems and what is needed to do so robustly while facing constantly changing data.

WEEK 2
Select and Train a Model
This week is about model strategies and key challenges in model development. It covers error analysis and strategies to work with different data types. It also addresses how to cope with class imbalance and highly skewed data sets.

WEEK 3
Data Definition and Baseline
This week is all about working with different data types and ensuring label consistency for classification problems. This leads to establishing a performance baseline for your model and discussing strategies to improve it given your time and resources constraints.

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