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AWS re:Invent 2022 - Accelerate your ML journey with Amazon SageMaker low-code tools (AIM314)

Summary

• Presenters: Claire O'Brien Rajkumar (Product Manager, SageMaker team) and Vadim Omelchenko (Senior Solutions Architect).
• Audience: A mix of beginners and advanced practitioners in machine learning.
• Key Topics:
  • Explanation of low-code machine learning and its benefits.
  • Overview of SageMaker's low-code ML tools: Data Wrangler, Autopilot, and Jumpstart.
  • Demonstrations of each tool, showcasing their capabilities and integration.
  • Discussion on the typical ML workflow: data preparation, model building, training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Challenges in ML workflows: expertise requirement, time-consuming experimentation, and organizational bottlenecks.
  • Low-code ML aims to make ML practitioners more productive while maintaining flexibility and visibility.
  • Data Wrangler: Low-code tool for data preparation with visual UI, point-and-click transformations, and custom code options.
  • Autopilot: Low-code tool for building, training, tuning, and deploying models with parallel trial execution and model leaderboard.
  • Jumpstart: ML hub with pre-trained models, solutions templates, and example notebooks for common ML problems.
  • Special guest Ori Ghoshin (CEO, AI21 Labs) discussed foundation models and demonstrated AI21 Labs' Jurassic-1 language model available in SageMaker Jumpstart.

Insights

• Low-code ML Tools: The emphasis on low-code tools like Data Wrangler, Autopilot, and Jumpstart indicates AWS's commitment to making machine learning more accessible and efficient for a wider range of users, including those with limited coding expertise.
• Integration and Flexibility: The seamless integration between Data Wrangler and Autopilot allows users to apply domain knowledge in data preparation before using Autopilot for model building, which is a unique approach to combining low-code with customizability.
• Foundation Models: The introduction of foundation models like AI21 Labs' Jurassic-1 in SageMaker Jumpstart highlights the trend towards leveraging large, pre-trained models to accelerate development and reduce costs associated with training complex models from scratch.
• ML Workflow Optimization: The tools presented aim to address common pain points in the ML workflow, such as the high time cost of experimentation and the scarcity of ML resources within organizations, by automating and simplifying various stages of the ML lifecycle.
• AWS Ecosystem Synergy: The tools are designed to work within the AWS ecosystem, offering advantages like security and compatibility with SageMaker, which can be a compelling reason for customers to choose AWS for their ML projects.
• Community and Education: The session indicates AWS's focus on building a community and educating users on the potential of ML, as evidenced by the hands-on workshops and additional sessions offered throughout the re:Invent event.