Machine Learning Lifecycle Platform for Model Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in modeling and testing data models due to the need for highly skilled data scientists, tedious and costly processes, and the overhead of consuming data from diverse sources, which hinders their ability to derive actionable insights effectively.

Innovation Solution

A machine learning lifecycle management platform that includes modules for data collection, workflow management, training, prediction, and multi-sample hypothesis testing, facilitating collaboration among teams and accelerating the innovation cycle by providing a user-friendly interface for building, managing, and deploying predictive models.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If highly skilled data scientists are used to build and test models, then model quality and accuracy are improved, but cost and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel accuracyVSAvoiddevelopment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The platform segments the complex model development process into distinct modular components including data collection, workflow management, model training, prediction, and hypothesis testing. Each module can be independently configured and executed, allowing automated processing while maintaining model quality standards through structured validation at each stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The platform acts as an intermediary system between raw data and final insights, providing automated workflow management and model training capabilities. This intermediary layer handles the complex processing tasks that would otherwise require skilled data scientists, thereby reducing both time and dependency on specialized expertise while maintaining output quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If diverse data sources are consumed to improve model insights, then analytical capability is enhanced, but process overhead and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalytical capabilityVSAvoidprocess complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform provides universal data collection capabilities that can access multiple diverse data sources through a unified interface. The collector module is designed to handle various data types and sources (transactional logs, social media, web traffic) through standardized processes, thereby enhancing analytical capability without proportionally increasing process complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The platform serves as an intermediary layer between diverse data sources and the analysis process, providing standardized data collection and processing mechanisms. This abstraction layer simplifies access to multiple data sources by handling the complexity of data integration, formatting, and validation centrally, allowing users to leverage diverse data without managing the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If traditional model development processes are used, then model reliability is maintained, but productivity and innovation speed decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel reliabilityVSAvoidinnovation speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The platform performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring workflow templates, data collection pipelines, and model training parameters. These pre-established structures enable rapid deployment of reliable models by eliminating the need to build processing pipelines from scratch for each project, thereby maintaining reliability through proven workflows while significantly accelerating productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The platform enables continuous model training and evaluation through automated workflows that can run continuously or on scheduled intervals. This continuous action allows for ongoing model improvement and validation without interrupting production operations, maintaining reliability through consistent monitoring while increasing productivity through parallel processing and automated retraining cycles.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS10262271B1Systems and methods for modeling machine learning and data analytics
Publication Date: 2019.04.16 DATATRON TECHNOLOGIES INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for implementing and using a data modeling and machine learning lifecycle management platform that facilitates collaboration among data engineering, development and operations teams and provides capabilities to experiment using different models in a production environment to accelerate the innovation cycle. Stored computer instructions and processors instantiate various modules of the platform. The modules include a user interface, a collector module for accessing various data sources, a workflow module for processing data received from the data sources, a training module for executing stored computer instructions to train one or more data analytics models using the processed data, a predictor module for producing predictive datasets based on the data analytics models, and a challenger module for executing multi-sample hypothesis testing of the data analytics models.