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Flow-Based Programming for Machine Learning

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  • Tanmaya Mahapatra

    (Software and Systems Engineering Research Group, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 03, 85748 Garching, Germany
    Current address: Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 333031, India.
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Syeeda Nilofer Banoo

    (Software and Systems Engineering Research Group, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 03, 85748 Garching, Germany
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Machine Learning (ML) has gained prominence and has tremendous applications in fields like medicine, biology, geography and astrophysics, to name a few. Arguably, in such areas, it is used by domain experts, who are not necessarily skilled-programmers. Thus, it presents a steep learning curve for such domain experts in programming ML applications. To overcome this and foster widespread adoption of ML techniques, we propose to equip them with domain-specific graphical tools. Such tools, based on the principles of flow-based programming paradigm, would support the graphical composition of ML applications at a higher level of abstraction and auto-generation of target code. Accordingly, (i) we have modelled ML algorithms as composable components; (ii) described an approach to parse a flow created by connecting several such composable components and use an API-based code generation technique to generate the ML application. To demonstrate the feasibility of our conceptual approach, we have modelled the APIs of Apache Spark ML as composable components and validated it in three use-cases. The use-cases are designed to capture the ease of program specification at a higher abstraction level, easy parametrisation of ML APIs, auto-generation of the ML application and auto-validation of the generated model for better prediction accuracy.

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  • Tanmaya Mahapatra & Syeeda Nilofer Banoo, 2022. "Flow-Based Programming for Machine Learning," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-23, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:58-:d:749737
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