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A comment on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks.

Re:Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchang... by pgroves on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:54PM (#15194721)
Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) was released in 1997 to solve a very similar problem (but for lots of predictive models). I don't know that it ever really caught on. That was also promoted by the tool builders but not by the users.

While checking the wikipedia page, I'm surprised to see that it is still being developed (with a 2016 release): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_Model_Markup_Langua...

Please note that in 1997 it was NOT ridiculous to use XML for this.

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Re:Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchang... by mindcrime on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:39PM (#15197516)
PMML is definitely in use. There are occasional compatibility issues, but for the present, it is the standard for exchanging models.
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Re:Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchang... by bayonetz on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:25PM (#15197252)
PMML is alive and well for sure. It really only covers simpler model types so something aimed at deep nets models is a welcome addition. However, PMML is still alive and well because plenty of ML will continue to be based on simpler model types and modelers don't want to be tied down on choice of modeling tech even for simple model types.
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Re:Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchang... by nametube on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:58PM (#15195650)
You might also be interested in openscoring https://github.com/openscoring/openscoring . It lets you run PMML models and score examples through a rest API.
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