Feature stores, and second thoughts in 2021

13 sessions

MeetupReal-time Feature Pipelines, A Personal HistoryHendrik Brackmann, Tide · 58:07 · Jan 2021 · 774 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backHendrik Brackmann says the usefulness of storing dynamic model outputs as features depends on reuse, training design, and system boundaries rather than having one universal answer.45:02

PodcastMachine Learning Feature Store Panel DiscussionVishnu Rachakonda, Tesseract Health & Daniel Galinkin, iFood & Matias Dominguez, Rappi & Simarpal Khaira, Intuit · 1:05:16 · Jan 2021 · 1,563 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

Pushed backWhether a company needs to buy or build a feature store depends on its use cases and maturity rather than having a single universal answer.9:29

MeetupMachine Learning Design Patterns for MLOpsValliappa Lakshmanan, Google Cloud · 56:42 · Feb 2021 · 5,242 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimA feature store is useful when multiple models need to reuse the same calculated features, but many use cases only need a library.13:04

Meetup2 tools = 90% operational MLMichael Del Balso, Tecton & Willem Pienaar, Feast & David Aronchick, Kubeflow · 56:39 · Feb 2021 · 1,007 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimFeature stores provide abstractions over different data architectures and simplify decisions involved in building MLOps pipelines.15:29

PodcastMachine Learning at AtlassianGeoff Sims, Atlassian · 58:23 · Apr 2021 · 1,163 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimAtlassian initially had scattered data analysts who often acted as full-stack data scientists, but it did not yet have machine-learning-powered product features.13:20

MeetupFrom Idea to Production MLLex Beattie, Spotify · 53:18 · May 2021 · 536 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimLex Beattie says explainable AI can be used to debug models and check whether features or neurons are behaving as expected.37:19

MeetupBuilding ML Blocks with Kubeflow Orchestration with Feature StoreAniruddha Choudhury, Publicis Sapient · 1:26:03 · Jul 2021 · 2,160 views · MLOps Meetup

Pushed backAniruddha Choudhury says Feast is not a workflow scheduler, data warehouse, pipeline orchestrator, feature engineering tool, or model-serving product.16:10

MeetupWhat MLOps Has Taught MeEwan Nicolson, Forecast · 54:14 · Aug 2021 · 524 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimEwan Nicolson demonstrates a locally run recommender system with streaming data ingestion, a data lake, collaborative filtering, embeddings, an approximate-nearest-neighbors index, a feature store, business rules, and an API.8:55

PodcastThe Future of ML and Data PlatformsMichael Del Balso, Tecton · 55:17 · Oct 2021 · 1,205 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimMichael Del Balso says the safest way to build a platform is to start with basic capabilities, help teams use them, and turn repeated bespoke work into platform features.21:12

MeetupDoing MLOpsNoah Gift, Pragmatic AI Labs · 1:01:22 · Oct 2021 · 1,479 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimA feature store can hold cleaned, transformed, scaled, and documented data for both machine learning and business intelligence.15:11

MeetupFeast Feature Store Deep DiveFelix Wang, Tecton · 28:36 · Oct 2021 · 4,570 views · MLOps Meetup

ClaimFeast is an open-source feature store.4:51

PodcastLinkedIn Job RecommendationsAlexandre Patry, LinkedIn · 51:41 · Oct 2021 · 614 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimThe team refactored its models so that personalization was handled in activity features rather than inside each model's learned weights.5:49

PodcastML Stepping Stones: Challenges & Opportunities for CompaniesJohn Crousse · 47:47 · Dec 2021 · 164 views · MLOps Coffee Sessions

ClaimJohn Crousse says not every feature containing machine learning has a business case for constant monitoring or incremental improvement.15:47