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Simple UI tool to build custom machine learning models.
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Customize location of model training auto-generated files #1917

Open khteh opened 2 years ago

khteh commented 2 years ago

I am using VS 2022. Why is there no option to customize model training auto-generated files? For example I would like specific path to the auto-generated model files to be updated automatically during retrain.

I have tried to move .mbconfig to a different folder but to no avail. The .mbconfig copies itself back to top-level directory of the project together with all the auto-generated files!

beccamc commented 2 years ago

@khteh Can I hear more about what you're trying to accomplish? Are you trying to create different versions of the model in different folders?

khteh commented 2 years ago

Hi @beccamc regardless of the versioning of the model, I was looking for the option to customize the path/location to put the model .zip from the Model Builder in order for other projects in the solution (.sln) to cosume it. It seems that the current behaviour always puts the .zip together with the model builder config file....

I know that this is possible using the ML.Net API and I have tried it. This leads me to the following questions:

(1) What's the use case for the Model Builder? How can I use it for the end-to-end application development which involves ML/AI?

(2) Is the Model Builder only used in an isolated ML/AI step only for the purpose of preparing the data, ingest data, trying out different AI algorithms, train, evaluate and test the model?

(3) The Model Builder produces 3 artefacts: (i) <foo>_training.cs: It only contains 2 functions: RetrainPipeline and BuildPipeline. Where is the code for data preparation and ingestion (train data, test/validation data, etc)? (ii) <foo>_consumption.cs How can I easily resue the work from the Model Builder auto-generated code in the API use case?

beccamc commented 2 years ago

We just released a VS Notebook Editor extension. If you have it installed we will generate a Notebook file, which gives a better step by step re-training flow. - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MLNET.notebook

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

khteh commented 2 years ago

Any tutorial for me to follow?