3 Reasons Why Production Machine Learning Fails

Production machine learning (ML) is one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of machine learning. It offers the ability to scale a machine learning model to work with large amounts of data.

Production ML differs from academic machine learning in that it is designed to solve a problem or task rather than just to show some proof of concept. It is also designed for the real world, where there are real-world issues of time and cost, or issues with the data.

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Production ML is data science and engineering, requiring knowledge of machine learning, software engineering, and data science. Machine learning is a critical part of any successful project in the new digital economy. However, it’s not something that can be created in the comfort of a laboratory.

This requires a completely different approach. A project in the real world is not just about building the framework for a machine learning model. It’s about building the right model using the right tools to get the right results and ML Model Monitoring can help in achieving the process.

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3 Reasons Why Production Machine Learning Fails

Lack of Coordination between the Software Development and Data Science

The biggest challenge in machine learning and deep learning is a generalization. The reason is that the data the machine learns in the training phase may not be available in the real world. There are always exceptions, noise or other conditions that interfere with the model in the real world.

A model that is trained to recognize dogs will not be able to distinguish a Chihuahua from a Newfoundland. Implementations of machine learning often fail in production. This blog post will show how to learn from failures of machine learning in production, and how to avoid them.

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Lack of Expertise

There are many reasons why machine learning fails in production. The majority of data science projects fail to meet business objectives and fail in production. The main reasons why machine learning projects fail are lack of expertise, failure to apply best practices, lack of resources, and data issues.

But the main problem is that production machine learning is a different game than development machine learning. The purpose of this blog post is to provide a short overview of the key differences and challenges that machine learning developers need to be aware of.

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Algorithms

Algorithms are not perfect. They may never be and that’s not a bad thing. The imperfections or errors in the data fed to the algorithm are the things that help machine learning to learn.

For the data to be fed to the algorithm, it has to be produced. And in order for production machine learning to work, it has to be created and put in place. Here are a few reasons why production machine learning may fail.

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Data Science and Software Development are sometimes at odds with each other, which often leads to a disconnect between the two processes.

The most common reasons for this disconnect are: Data scientists use all kinds of tools for their work, for instance: Python, R, Hadoop, Spark, and SAS. Data scientists are not always familiar with the software development process and tools, and the software developers sometimes don’t understand or don’t want to use the data science tools.

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