Machine Learning Tools

Apache Mahout

This framework is open source for machine learning algorithms which is implemented on the top of Apache Hadoop. For an easier approach to finding patterns in very large data sets the framework is commonly used by data scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians. Apache Software Foundation built the framework to build up a next-gen mobile application that can learn from user behavior and recommend any outcome or result accordingly.

Which features make it a trusted source?

• Proven scalability for large data sets:

The large data center cluster that runs Apache Hadoop, this framework is designed to distribute on those. Helps in reducing paradigm.

• Proven algorithm:

To solve the common problems in various industries the framework uses a set of algorithms.

• Discussion forum:

Mahout provides its users with an open community forum of its own to conduct direct discussions between users to address issues.

AWS Machine Learning

The patterns in user data can be discovered by the AWS machine learning tools. The developers can discover the pattern with it using the algorithm, constructing mathematical models based on that built-up pattern and predicting. For any use case, the Amazon SageMaker toolset helps developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

Which features make it unique?

• Generative AI helps in reinventing customer experience
• Optimize business processes and accelerate innovation addressing common problems
• Wide scope of adoption as AWS machine learning tools offer predictions without writing code

BigML

BigML is used to make eligible users load their own sets of data, build and share those data models evaluate those models, and generate new predictions. It can either predict singularly or in a batch. BigML is more interpretable as it provides interactive visualization and explanatory features.

Which features make it suitable for the users?

• Easy to use web interface and REST API within minutes on a cloud platform with immediate access for your ML project.
• A collaborative platform. Share the ML resources through the granular team.
• All resources on BigML are stored with a unique ID and are immutable to help the user track any workflow.

Colab

Colaboratory is the full form of Google’s Colab which is a cloud-based service that helps developers to build machine learning applications. The users can merge and combine this code set with texts, images, and HTML to build trained machine-learning models.

Specific features of the model:

• Delve into the world of machine learning and neural networks through engaging interactive tutorials.
• Compose and run Python 3 code hassle-free, with no need for a local setup.
• Seamlessly execute terminal commands right from the Notebook interface.
• Effortlessly import datasets from external sources like Kaggle to fuel your data-driven endeavors.

Google Cloud AutoML

State-of-the-art transfer learning and neural architecture search technology, Google Cloud AutoML helps developers with limited knowledge of machine learning with the collection of machine learning products that train high-quality models.

Specific features of the models:

• The platform offers a comprehensive range of machine learning solutions, encompassing model training, deep learning, and predictive modeling.
• Two distinct services, prediction, and training, can be utilized either independently or in tandem, providing flexible options to suit your needs.
• Enterprises can leverage our technology for diverse applications, such as identifying clouds in satellite images or responding more efficiently to customer emails.
• The platform is highly versatile, making it an ideal choice for training complex models across various industries.

IBM Watson Studio

IBM Watson is not only popular for machine learning but also in cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. The developers use IBM Watson Studio to put their machine learning and deep learning models into production. It offers tools for data analysis and visualization along with data shaping and cleaning.

Specific features of the models:

• Automatically built model pipelines through AutoAI help in the faster experiment.
• Advanced data refining process using a graphical flow editor.
• Embedded decision optimization. A combination of predictive and prescriptive models where predictions are used to optimize decisions.
• Model management and monitoring option.
• Compare and evaluate models for model risk management.

Anaconda

Anaco da is mainly an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Developers can work in the most specialist environments for data science and machine learning for statistical programming with R. Therefore, the pre-installed packages and package manager for easier package dependencies management and resolving conflict between the packages.

Specific features of the models:

• A wide variety of tools helps in retrieving data from various sources.
• Easily manageable environment and setup to deploy any project with just a click.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Building, testing, and deploying machine learning models can be done with Azure Machine Learning. The collaborative and drag-and-drop design lets the developers go through the entire machine-learning process. It also offers features for preparing data exploration, model training, and development model validation along with continuous monitoring. To help the users build their predictive analysis models Azure visually connects the data sets as it also requires no programming.

Specific features of the models:

• Rapid model development using familiar frameworks which is supported by flexible and powerful artificial intelligence infrastructure.
• Quick ML model deployment and management collaborate and streamline MLOps.
• Increased transparency and accountability as Responsible AI builds explainable models.

OpenNN

OPENN stands for Open Neural Network Library. It is a software library that is used for implementing neural networks that focus on the main area of deep machine learning research. OPENN also offers sophisticated algorithms and utilities that can deal with artificial intelligence solutions.

Specific features of the models:

• Higher capacity can manage bigger sets of data.
• OPENN can train a model faster than other machine learning tools or frameworks that can boost productivity.

PyTorch

Pytorch is mainly based on Python programming language and Torch library. It is an open-source machine-learning framework that is used to create neural networks and is written in Lua scripting language. The framework is primarily built to speed up the process between research prototyping and deployment.

Specific features of the models:

• PyTorch is an open-source library of Python for adding support to large and multidimensional arrays.
• To ensure a seamless transition between models for the users, TorchScript is the dedicated production environment. Torchsript is used to optimize functionality, speed, and flexibility.
• Automatic differentiation is used to create and train neural networks.

Scikit-learn

It is one of the most robust and useful machine-learning libraries in Python. Users can avail a range of efficient machine-learning tools along with statistical modeling. Classification, regression, clustering, and dimensionality reduction through a consistent interface in Python. As an open-source library and active community, the users can learn about machine learning while asking questions.

Specific features of the models:

• Scikit-learn includes almost every range of supervised learning algorithms like Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Regression, etc.
• Cluster, the model is used to group unlabeled data.
• Cross-validation, the model is used to check the accuracy of the supervised models for the unseen data.

Shogun

Shogun is a free source of machine-learning tools for every user. It offers several numbers of algorithms and structures of data for machine learning problems. Shogun can ensure that the underlying algorithms are transparent and accessible. Setting apart from other machine-learning tools and frameworks, the Shogun library is one the most efficient and established language-wise including Python, Java, R, Octave, and Ruby.

Specific features of the models:

• Modular architecture allows users to combine various components and algorithms, for creating custom machine-learning pipelines.
• Shogun’s interactive interface like the Shogun toolbox in Python allows users to perform data exploration, visualization, and analysis easily.

TensorFlow

It is an open-source machine-learning framework that has extensive inclusion of several tools, libraries, and resources. TensorFlow helps users build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Natural language processing, predictive machine learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning are some of the wide range of offers that it offers.

Specific features of the models:

• Cross-platform like Andriod, Cloud, and iOS, with various architectures like CPUs and GPUs access to TensorFlow applications, makes it easier for execution on embedded platforms.
• Tensor Board works with the graph to visualize its working using its dashboard. It helps the users for a faster debugging system, reflecting each node.
• The transformation of raw data to the estimators through TensorFlow, which is a form of data neural networks understand.

Vertex AI

Google created Vertex AI as a unified artificial intelligence platform to address and resolve the issues encountered while creating and implementing machine learning models.  It unifies several processes in the workflow of machine learning. A unified process helps the users to train their machine learning models and host these models in the cloud ultimately reaching conclusions about any large amount of data through these models.

Specific features of the models:

• Any organization can easily adapt and deploy machine learning models on edge with the powerful tool, Vertex ML Edge.
• Users can easily store and share data between teams with a centralized repository system Vertex Feature Store.
• Vertex ML Metadata manages metadata for workflows of machine learning.
• Track and debug machine learning models easily with the visualization tool Vertex TensorBoard.

Weka

Weka is a collection of visualization tools and algorithms to analyze data, data mining, and predictive modeling. It offers tools for data preparation, classification, regression, clustering, association rules mining, and visualization.

Specific features of the models:

• Preprocess: The most crucial section of data mining as most of the data is raw. Weka provides Filter, a comprehensive set of options to make the data clean, better, and comprehensive.
• Classification: Assign categories to the items. Choose the desired classifier and choose test options for the training set.
• Clustering: Based on some similarities the datasets are arranged in separate groups or clusters.
• Associate: It highlights the correlation and association between the items of datasets.
• Visualize: In this tab, plot matrics and graphs show the trends and errors that are identified by the models.

PyTorch Lightning

Pytorch Lightning is the primary layer on top of Pytorch, built mainly to focus on research instead of on engineering and other redundant tasks. The developers can focus on multiple models in a short time as Pytorch Lightning abstracts the underlying complexities of the model and common code structures.

Specific features of the models:

• Pytorch Lightning is a framework that prints warnings and provides developers with machine learning tips.
• The framework is fast and scalable. As it supports TPU integration and removes the barriers to using multiple GPUs.
• It supports to running of experiments in parallel on other virtual machines using grid.ai.

Catalyst

Catalyst is another Pytorch machine learning framework that is designed for deep learning solutions. It assists in engineering tasks like code reusability and reproducibility, facilitating rapid experimentation.

Specific features of the models:

• Catalyst helps developers execute deep learning models with a few lines of code.
• It supports a few top deep learning models like ranger optimizer, stochastic weight averaging, and one-cycle training.
• It stores source code and environment variables that enable reproducible experiments.

LightGBM

LightGBM is a gradient-boosting algorithm that uses tree-based models. In terms of speed, it is faster than other machine learning tools or frameworks.

Specific features of the models:

• Gradient-boosting framework based on decision trees helps to increase efficacy and reduce memory usage.
• LightGBM uses two novel techniques: Gradient-based One Side Sampling (GOSS) and Exclusive Feature Bundling (EFB).
• These techniques help to fulfill the limitations of the histogram-based algorithm which is primarily used in all GBDT (Gradient Boosting Decision Tree).

CatBoost

With minimal training, CatBoost provides the best results compared to other machine learning models. It is an open-source tool and quite popular due to its convenient usability. It is a supervised machine learning method and uses decision trees for classification and regression.

Specific features of the models:

• To overcome the limitations of other decision tree-based methods which typically demand pre-processed data for converting categorical string variables to numerical values, one-hot-encoding, and more, CatBoost can directly consume a combination of categorical and non-categorical explanatory variables without processing.
• The processing is done as part of the algorithm.
• CatBoost uses a process named ordered encoding for encoding categorical features.

Fast.ai

Fast.ai has been developed to make deep learning accessible across multiple languages, small datasets, and operating systems. It is a deep learning library that provides practitioners with high-level components that are quick and easily provide the best results for deep learning domains.

Specific features of the models:

• A new type dispatch system for Python along with a semantic type hierarchy for tensors
• A GPU-optimized computer vision library that can be extended in pure Python.
• An optimizer that refactors out the common functionality of modern optimizers into two basic pieces, allowing optimization algorithms to be implemented in 4-to 5 lines of code.
• A novel 2-way callback system that can access any part of the data, model, or optimizer and change it at any point during training.

PyTorch Ignite

Pytorch Ignite is a high-level library for helping with training and evaluating the neural networks in Pytorch with flexibility and transparency. Ignite provides users with an interface that can structure the architecture, criterion, and loss into one function to train and evaluate.

The high-level features of PyTorch Ignite are:

• Engine: The users can structure different configurations to train and evaluate
• Unique metrics: The metrics help the users to easily evaluate the models
• Built-in handlers: The users can create a training pipeline and logging. It helps to interact with the engine.

NET

Accord.Net is a .Net based machine learning framework that is mainly used for scientific computing. The audio and image processing library is combined with it and is written in C#. .Net framework provides different libraries for several applications in ML, like, Linear Algebra, Pattern Recognition, and Statistical Data Processing.

Specific features of the framework:

• Consists of more than 40 parametric and non-parametric estimations of statistical distributions.
• 38+ kernel functions.
• .Net is used to create production-grade computer auditions, signal processing, statistics apps, and computer vision.

Oryx2

Built on Apache Kafka and Apache Spark. Machine learning projects that are real-time and large-scale use Oryx2. This machine learning framework is designed to build apps including end-to-end applications to filter, package, regression, classification, and cluster.

Specific features of the framework:

• Three tiers: specialization on top providing ML abstractions, generic lambda architecture tier, and end-to-end implementation of the same standard ML algorithms.
• The three layers are arranged side-by-side named speed layer, batch layer, and serving layer.
• The data transport layer can transfer data between layers and receive input from external sources.

Apache Spark MLlib

Apache Spark MLlib is a scalable machine learning library that runs on Apache Mesos, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Standalone, or in the cloud.

Specific features of the framework:

• MLlib contains various algorithms, including Classification, Regression, Clustering, recommendations, association rules, etc.
• It runs different platforms such as Hadoop, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, standalone, or in the cloud against diverse data sources.
• It contains high-quality algorithms that provide great results and performance.

Final

In this article, some of the machine learning tools and frameworks have been discussed. Though there are more ML tools and frameworks usage is based on the type of project and its requirements. Each tool functions in a different language and is designed with some specifications.