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Large production pipelines in TensorFlow are quite difficult to pull off. Training small models is easy, and we mostly do this at first, but as soon as we get to the rest of the pipeline, complexity rapidly mounts. One reason is that the “Computation Graph” abstraction used by TensorFlow is a close, but not exact match for the ML model we expect to train and use. How so? Typically a model will be used in at least three ways: Training – finding the correct weights or parameters for the model given some training data. Often done periodically as new data arrives. Evaluation – calculating various metrics during training on a different data set to evaluate training quality or for cross validation. Serving – on-demand prediction for new data There could be more modes. For example we could re-train an existing model or apply the model to a large amount of […]