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    The Reason Your AI Program Fails to Sustain Value

    When you think of data scientists, what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, you probably picture a team of math PhDs training models and...
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    Navigating AI/ML Uncertainty: Insights Borrowed from Election Polling

    Though not immediately obvious, data scientists who train and evaluate artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML) models encounter many...
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    Model Remediation: The Solution to The Day 3 Problem of Model Drift

    Model failure is a huge concern for any AI-driven organization. The phenomenon that causes models to stop working in production—known as model drift,...
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    What Is Valor, the Striveworks Model Evaluation Service?

    Valor is a first-of-its-kind AI model evaluation service from Striveworks. This open-source tool saves data teams enormous time and effort in...
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    What Is AI Model Drift?

    In our recent post on model retraining, we touch on an unfortunate but unavoidable fact of machine learning (ML) models: They often have remarkably...
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    How to Choose an MLOps Vendor

    Once you’ve settled the “build vs. buy” debate, your research enters a new phase: how to choose a machine learning operations (MLOps) vendor. That...
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    Why, When, and How to Retrain Machine Learning Models

    Once you train a machine learning model effectively, it has the ability to perform incredibly useful tasks, like detecting objects on real-time...
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    What Is Data Lineage?

    Data lineage refers to the full history of data points and actions taken on them throughout a machine learning (ML) workflow. By inspecting a...
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    Understanding Performance Bias With the Valor Model Evaluation Service

    Machine learning benchmarks like ImageNet, COCO, and LLM Leaderboard usually target a single metric, such as accuracy for classification tasks or...
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    To Build or Buy an MLOps Platform?

    It’s the oldest debate in business (or at least the oldest since Silicon Valley invented software-as-a-service). “If we need software, should we buy...
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    Text Classification With LLMs: A Roundup of the Best Methods

    This blog post is part of a series on using large language models for text classification. View the other posts here: LLMs for Text Classification:...
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    Unsupervised Text Classification: Categorize Natural Language With LLMs

    This blog post is part of a series on using large language models for text classification. View the other posts here: LLMs for Text Classification:...
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    LLMs for Text Classification: A Guide to Supervised Learning

    This blog post is part of a series on using large language models for text classification. View the other posts here: Unsupervised Text...
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    Striveworks Secures Patent for Innovative Data Lineage Process

    The new process grants greater transparency into machine learning workflows and allows for better data governance. Originally published on January 4,...
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    Navigating AI’s ‘Messy Middle’ in 2024

    With all due apologies to our future president, Taylor Swift, 2023 was the year of AI. The excitement around generative AI crescendoed, seeing vastly...
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    Demystifying CV: The Power of Convolution in Neural Networks

    Computer vision is an innovative field of research that aims to provide computers with an understanding of digital imagery, often through artificial...
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    Understanding Neural Networks and the Training Process

    Training a neural network involves a lot of mathematics, including linear algebra and multivariate calculus, and a lot of computation. The purpose of...
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    Sequential Learning through Knowledge Distillation

    In the last blog post, we saw that neural networks can be simplified (or pruned) to alleviate their complexity and cost for computation. Often small...
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    Pruning ResNets for Fun and Profit

    What are Neural Networks? Neural networks are highly parameterized functions which can be trained to fit/represent/model data. Parameterized models...
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