{"id":9359,"date":"2017-09-25T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-launches-new-machine-learning-tools.html"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:39:21","slug":"microsoft-launches-new-machine-learning-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-launches-new-machine-learning-tools.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches new machine learning tools"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft, just like many of its competitors, has gone all in on machine learning<\/a>. That emphasis<\/a> is on full display at the company\u2019s Ignite conference this where, where the company today announced a number of new tools for developers who want to build new A.I. models and users who simply want to make use of these pre-existing models \u2014 either from their own teams or from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

For developers, the company launched three major new tools today: the Azure Machine Learning Experimentation service, the Azure Machine Learning Workbench and the Azure Machine Learning Model Management service.<\/p>\n

In addition, Microsoft also launched a new set of tools for developers who want to use its Visual Studio Code IDE for building models with CNTK, TensorFlow, Theano, Keras and Caffe2. And for non-developers, Microsoft is also bringing Azure-based machine learning models to Excel users, who will now be able to call up the AI functions that their company\u2019s data scientists have created right from their spreadsheets.<\/p>\n

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The Experimentation Service is all about helping developers quickly train and deploy machine learning experiments. The service supports all of the usual open source frameworks (PyTorch, Caffe2, TensorFlow, Cahiner and Microsoft\u2019s own CNTK)and can scale from a local machines to hundreds of GPUs in the cloud (thanks to the use of Docker containers and the Azure Batch AI Training service). The tools also supports Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight clusters. The service keeps track of all the models, configurations and data (using Git repositories) to give developers full versioning for their experiments.<\/p>\n

The Machine Learning Workbench is a desktop client for Windows and Mac (and yes, in this brave new world, Mac apps from Microsoft really aren\u2019t a big deal anymore) that, in Microsoft\u2019s words, is meant to be the \u201ccontrol panel for your development lifecycle and a great way to get started using machine learning.\u201d It features integrations with Jupyter Notebooks and IDEs like Visual Studio Code and PyCharm and allows developers to build models in Python, PySpak and Scala.<\/p>\n

As Microsoft\u2019s Joseph Sirosh notes in today\u2019s announcement, the most interesting feature here, though, may just be the tool\u2019s ability to automatically transform your data so that the machine learning algorithms can work with it.<\/p>\n

Like the Experimentation Service, the new Model Management service uses Docker containers to help developers and data scientists to deploy and manage their models to virtually anywhere a Docker container can run (including Microsoft\u2019s own Kubernetes-based Azure Container Service).<\/p>\n

The main takeaway from these announcements is that Microsoft continues to expand its toolbox for developers who want to build machine-learning based applications \u2014 both for their internal and external customers. What\u2019s especially nice to see here is that these tools support a wide variety of non-Microsoft frameworks. A few years ago, that probably wouldn\u2019t have been the company\u2019s approach, but every one of these frameworks has its own advantages and disadvantages and thankfully Microsoft has understood that its focus shouldn\u2019t be on excluding some frameworks but to offer a platform that supports all of them. The money here isn\u2019t in offering open source frameworks, after all, but in providing the cloud services that developers will want to use to train, deploy and manage them.<\/p>\n

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