Saving models

After initializing MLEM we have an empty project (except for the config file), but soon we'll save something with MLEM to fill it up.

Training the model

To save models with MLEM you just need to use mlem.api.save() method instead of some other way you saved your model before. Let's take a look at the following Python script:

# train.py
from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier

from mlem.api import save


def main():
    data, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True, as_frame=True)
    rf = RandomForestClassifier(
        n_jobs=2,
        random_state=42,
    )
    rf.fit(data, y)

    save(
        rf,
        "rf",
        sample_data=data,
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Here we load well-known iris dataset with sklearn and train a simple classifier. But instead of pickling the model we saved it with MLEM.

Now let's run this script and see how we save the model.

$ python train.py
...

$ tree .mlem/model/
.mlem/model
├── rf
└── rf.mlem

By default, MLEM saves your files to .mlem/ directory, but that can be changed. See Project Structure for more details.

The model was saved along with some metadata about it: rf containing the model binary and a rf.mlem metafile containing information about it. Let's take a look at it:

$ cat .mlem/model/rf.mlem

artifacts:
  data:
    hash: 59440b4398b8d45d8ad64d8d407cfdf9
    size: 993
    uri: logreg
model_type:
  methods:
    predict:
      args:
        - name: data
          type_:
            columns:
              - ''
              - sepal length (cm)
              - sepal width (cm)
              - petal length (cm)
              - petal width (cm)
            dtypes:
              - int64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
            index_cols:
              - ''
            type: dataframe
      name: predict
      returns:
        dtype: int64
        shape:
          - null
        type: ndarray
    predict_proba:
      args:
        - name: data
          type_:
            columns:
              - ''
              - sepal length (cm)
              - sepal width (cm)
              - petal length (cm)
              - petal width (cm)
            dtypes:
              - int64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
            index_cols:
              - ''
            type: dataframe
      name: predict_proba
      returns:
        dtype: float64
        shape:
          - null
          - 3
        type: ndarray
    sklearn_predict:
      args:
        - name: X
          type_:
            columns:
              - ''
              - sepal length (cm)
              - sepal width (cm)
              - petal length (cm)
              - petal width (cm)
            dtypes:
              - int64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
            index_cols:
              - ''
            type: dataframe
      name: predict
      returns:
        dtype: int64
        shape:
          - null
        type: ndarray
    sklearn_predict_proba:
      args:
        - name: X
          type_:
            columns:
              - ''
              - sepal length (cm)
              - sepal width (cm)
              - petal length (cm)
              - petal width (cm)
            dtypes:
              - int64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
              - float64
            index_cols:
              - ''
            type: dataframe
      name: predict_proba
      returns:
        dtype: float64
        shape:
          - null
          - 3
        type: ndarray
  type: sklearn
object_type: model
requirements:
  - module: sklearn
    version: 1.0.2
  - module: pandas
    version: 1.4.1
  - module: numpy
    version: 1.22.3

It's a bit long, but we can see all that we need to use the model later:

Model methods: predict and predict_proba
Input data schema that describes the DataFrame with the iris dataset
Requirements: sklearn, numpy, pandas with particular versions we need to run this model.

Note that we didn't specify requirements: MLEM investigates the object you're saving (even if it's a complex one) and finds out all requirements needed!

⛳ Train

Tag: 2-train

$ git add .mlem/model
$ git commit -m "Train the model"
$ git diff 2-train

Saving models

Training the model

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