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New SageMaker features cut machine learning curve

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced nine new capabilities for its machine learning (ML) service, Amazon SageMaker, to make it easier for developers to automate and scale ML workflow. 

Key among these is an increased effort to eliminate the kind of racial and demographic bias that has damaged the reputation of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools in recent years.

Making the announcement during the AWS re:Invent conference, being held virtually this year, the company said that the new features bring together powerful new capabilities like faster data preparation, a purpose-built repository for prepared data, workflow automation, greater transparency into training data to mitigate bias and explain predictions, distributed training capabilities to train large models up to two times faster, and model monitoring on edge devices. 

With all the attention machine learning has received, it seems like it should be simple to create machine learning models, but it isn’t. In order to create a model, developers need to start with the highly manual process of preparing the data. Then they need to visualise it in notebooks, pick the right algorithm, set up the framework, train the model, tune millions of possible parameters, deploy the model, and monitor its performance. 

This process needs to be continuously repeated to ensure that the model is performing as expected over time. In the past, this process put machine learning out of the reach of all but the most skilled developers.

However, says AWS, Amazon SageMaker has changed that. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that removes challenges from each stage of the machine learning process, making it easier and faster for everyday developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. 

Customers utilising Amazon SageMaker include 3M, ADP, AstraZeneca, Avis, Bayer, Bundesliga, Capital One, Cerner, Chick-fil-A, Convoy, Domino’s Pizza, Fidelity Investments, GE Healthcare, Georgia-Pacific, Hearst, iFood, iHeartMedia, JPMorgan Chase, Intuit, Lenovo, Lyft, National Football League, Nerdwallet, T-Mobile, Thomson Reuters, and Vanguard.

Read more on the next page about the new capabilities of AWS.

AWS provided the following information on the new features, which it says build on more than 50 new Amazon SageMaker capabilities that AWS has delivered in the past year:

Read more on the next page about further capabilities of SageMaker.

“Hundreds of thousands of everyday developers and data scientists have used our industry-leading machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker, to remove barriers to building, training, and deploying custom machine learning models,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon Machine Learning at AWS. “One of the best parts about having such a widely-adopted service like SageMaker is that we get lots of customer suggestions which fuel our next set of deliverables.”

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