R Interface to Google CloudML

We’re excited to announce the provision of the cloudml package deal, which offers an R interface to Google Cloud Machine Studying Engine. CloudML offers quite a lot of companies together with on-demand entry to coaching on GPUs and hyperparameter tuning to optimize key attributes of mannequin architectures.

Overview

We’re excited to announce the provision of the cloudml package deal, which offers an R interface to Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine. CloudML offers quite a lot of companies together with:

• Scalable coaching of fashions constructed with the keras, tfestimators, and tensorflow R packages.

• On-demand entry to coaching on GPUs, together with the brand new Tesla P100 GPUs from NVIDIA®.

• Hyperparameter tuning to optmize key attributes of mannequin architectures with a purpose to maximize predictive accuracy.

• Deployment of skilled fashions to the Google international prediction platform that may help 1000’s of customers and TBs of information.

Coaching with CloudML

When you’ve configured your system to publish to CloudML, coaching a mannequin is as simple as calling the cloudml_train() operate:

library(cloudml)
cloudml_train("practice.R")

CloudML offers a wide range of GPU configurations, which could be simply chosen when calling cloudml_train(). For instance, the next would practice the identical mannequin as above however with a Tesla K80 GPU:

cloudml_train("practice.R", master_type = "standard_gpu")

To coach utilizing a Tesla P100 GPU you’ll specify "standard_p100":

cloudml_train("practice.R", master_type = "standard_p100")

When coaching completes the job is collected and a coaching run report is displayed:

Studying Extra

Take a look at the cloudml package documentation to get began with coaching and deploying fashions on CloudML.

It’s also possible to discover out extra in regards to the varied capabilities of CloudML in these articles:

• Training with CloudML goes into further depth on managing coaching jobs and their output.

• Hyperparameter Tuning explores how one can enhance the efficiency of your fashions by working many trials with distinct hyperparameters (e.g. quantity and measurement of layers) to find out their optimum values.

• Google Cloud Storage offers data on copying information between your native machine and Google Storage and likewise describes tips on how to use information inside Google Storage throughout coaching.

• Deploying Models describes tips on how to deploy skilled fashions and generate predictions from them.

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Quotation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Allaire (2018, Jan. 10). Posit AI Weblog: R Interface to Google CloudML. Retrieved from https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2018-01-10-r-interface-to-cloudml/

BibTeX quotation

@misc{allaire2018r,
  creator = {Allaire, J.J.},
  title = {Posit AI Weblog: R Interface to Google CloudML},
  url = {https://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2018-01-10-r-interface-to-cloudml/},
  yr = {2018}
}