Machine Learning Design Patterns | Michael Munn, Google

Design patterns capture best practices and solutions to recurring problems. The recently released O’Reilly book “Machine Learning Design Patterns” covers thirty design patterns that frequently crop up through the various stages of the machine learning process. In this talk, we will discuss in detail three of these tried-and-proven methods: Useful Overfitting, Rebalancing, and Explainable Predictions.

Rebalancing: Many real-world datasets are not perfectly balanced, and it’s important to address this throughout the ML process. The Rebalancing pattern provides various approaches for handling datasets that are inherently imbalanced.

Useful Overfitting: In the Useful Overfitting design pattern we forgo the use of generalization mechanisms, such as dropout, early stopping or use of validation set, because we want to intentionally overfit on the training dataset.

Explainable Predictions: The Explainable Predictions design pattern increases user trust in ML systems by providing users with an understanding of how and why models make certain predictions.

00:00 Intro DSM
07:55 Intro Design Patterns
11:50 Rebalancing
20:41 Useful Overfitting
36:15 Explainable Predictions
54:15 Q&A



Bio:

Michael Munn

Mike is an ML solutions engineer in Google Cloud. He helps customers design, implement, and deploy machine learning models and teaches the ML Immersion Program in Google’s Advanced Solutions Lab

Topics: machine learning engineering, design patterns, MLOps.

Event details:

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