Friday, July 15, 2022

Hurdles in shipping data science models to production

I want to collect some insights from Data scientists, ML engineers, Data engineers working on AI/ML problems.


What are the main hurdles which slow you down to ship your models to production?






I have summarised some learnings based on my conversations with some folks I talked to.


  • No clear agreement on metrics to optimize. 
  • Necessary data is not getting tracked. Getting this into the app would need another release cycle and user adoption of the newer version which is could be several weeks.
  • The superior model in offline evaluation does not guarantee better performance when rolled out in production.
  • Not involving engineers during model design and development. Discovering scalability issues late in the cycle.
  • Latency constraints impose some restrictions on online (request time) computations
  • Starting with a complex model and a large set of features
  • Not considering negative side-effects on other KPIs 


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Over to you:

What are the main hurdles which slow you down to ship your models to production? 


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