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Use scikit-learn to recognize hand-written digits with ibm-watsonx-ai
This notebook contains steps and code to demonstrate how to persist and deploy locally trained scikit-learn model in watsonx.ai Runtime Service. This notebook contains steps and code to work with ibm-watsonx-ai library available in PyPI repository. This notebook introduces commands for getting model and training data, persisting model, deploying model, scoring it, updating the model and redeploying it.
Some familiarity with Python is helpful. This notebook uses Python 3.11.
Learning goals
The learning goals of this notebook are:
Train sklearn model.
Persist trained model in watsonx.ai Runtime repository.
Deploy model for online scoring using client library.
Score sample records using client library.
Contents
This notebook contains the following parts:
1. Set up the environment
Before you use the sample code in this notebook, you must perform the following setup tasks:
Create a watsonx.ai Runtime Service instance (a free plan is offered and information about how to create the instance can be found here).
Install and import the ibm-watsonx-ai
and dependecies
Note: ibm-watsonx-ai
documentation can be found here.
Connection to watsonx.ai Runtime
Authenticate the watsonx.ai Runtime service on IBM Cloud. You need to provide platform api_key
and instance location
.
You can use IBM Cloud CLI to retrieve platform API Key and instance location.
API Key can be generated in the following way:
In result, get the value of api_key
from the output.
Location of your watsonx.ai Runtime instance can be retrieved in the following way:
In result, get the value of location
from the output.
Tip: Your Cloud API key
can be generated by going to the Users section of the Cloud console. From that page, click your name, scroll down to the API Keys section, and click Create an IBM Cloud API key. Give your key a name and click Create, then copy the created key and paste it below. You can also get a service specific url by going to the Endpoint URLs section of the watsonx.ai Runtime docs. You can check your instance location in your watsonx.ai Runtime Service instance details.
You can also get service specific apikey by going to the Service IDs section of the Cloud Console. From that page, click Create, then copy the created key and paste it below.
Action: Enter your api_key
and location
in the following cell.
Working with spaces
First, you need to create a space that will be used for your work. If you do not have space already created, you can use Deployment Spaces Dashboard to create one.
Click New Deployment Space
Create an empty space
Select Cloud Object Storage
Select watsonx.ai Runtime instance and press Create
Copy
space_id
and paste it below
Tip: You can also use SDK to prepare the space for your work. More information can be found here.
Action: Assign space ID below
You can use list
method to print all existing spaces.
To be able to interact with all resources available in watsonx.ai Runtime, you need to set space which you will be using.
2.1 Explore data
As a first step, you will load the data from scikit-learn sample datasets and perform a basic exploration.
Loaded toy dataset consists of 8x8 pixels images of hand-written digits.
Let's display first digit data and label using data and target.
In next step, you will count data examples.
2.2. Create a scikit-learn model
Prepare data
In this step, you'll split your data into three datasets:
train
test
score
Create pipeline
Next, you'll create scikit-learn pipeline.
In ths step, you will import scikit-learn machine learning packages that will be needed in next cells.
Standardize features by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance.
Next, define estimators you want to use for classification. Support Vector Machines (SVM) with radial basis function as kernel is used in the following example.
Let's build the pipeline now. This pipeline consists of transformer and an estimator.
Train model
Now, you can train your SVM model by using the previously defined pipeline and train data.
Evaluate model
You can check your model quality now. To evaluate the model, use test data.
You can tune your model now to achieve better accuracy. For simplicity of this example tuning section is omitted.
In this section, you will learn how to store your model in watsonx.ai Runtime repository by using the IBM watsonx.ai SDK.
3.1: Publish model
Publish model in watsonx.ai Runtime repository on Cloud.
Define model name, autor name and email.
3.2: Get model details
3.3 Get all models
In this section you will learn how to create online scoring and to score a new data record by using the IBM watsonx.ai SDK.
4.1: Create model deployment
Create online deployment for published model
Note: Here we use deployment url saved in published_model object. In next section, we show how to retrive deployment url from watsonx.ai Runtime instance.
Now you can print an online scoring endpoint.
You can also list existing deployments.
4.2: Get deployment details
You can use the following method to do test scoring request against deployed model.
Action: Prepare scoring payload with records to score.
Use client.deployments.score()
method to run scoring.
If you want to clean up all created assets:
experiments
trainings
pipelines
model definitions
models
functions
deployments
please follow up this sample notebook.
You successfully completed this notebook! You learned how to use scikit-learn machine learning as well as watsonx.ai Runtime for model creation and deployment. Check out our Online Documentation for more samples, tutorials, documentation, how-tos, and blog posts.
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