SynapseML
SynapseML is an ecosystem of tools aimed towards expanding the distributed computing framework Apache Spark in several new directions. SynapseML adds many deep learning and data science tools to the Spark ecosystem, including seamless integration of Spark Machine Learning pipelines with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), LightGBM and OpenCV. These tools enable powerful and highly scalable predictive and analytical models for many types of of datasources.
SynapseML also brings new networking capabilities to the Spark Ecosystem. With the HTTP on Spark project, users can embed any web service into their SparkML models. In this vein, SynapseML provides easy to use SparkML transformers for a wide variety of Azure Cognitive Services. For production grade deployment, the Spark Serving project enables high throughput, submillisecond latency web services, backed by your Spark cluster.
SynapseML requires Scala 2.12, Spark 3.2+, and Python 3.8+. See the API documentation for Scala and for PySpark.
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CognitiveServices - OverviewClassification - Adult CensusCognitiveServices - OverviewGeospatialServices - OverviewConditionalKNN - Exploring Art Across CulturesCyberML - Anomalous Access DetectionDataBalanceAnalysis - Adult Census IncomeInterpretability - Image ExplainersONNX - Inference on SparkLightGBM - OverviewVowpal Wabbit - OverviewExplore our Features
The Cognitive Services on Spark
Leverage the Microsoft Cognitive Services at unprecedented scales in your existing SparkML pipelines.
Stress Free Serving
Spark is well known for it's ability to switch between batch and streaming workloads by modifying a single line. We push this concept even further and enable distributed web services with the same API as batch and streaming workloads.
Lightning Fast Gradient Boosting
SynapseML adds GPU enabled gradient boosted machines from the popular framework LightGBM. Users can mix and match frameworks in a single distributed environment and API.
Fast and Sparse Text Analytics
Vowpal Wabbit on Spark enables new classes of workloads in scalable and performant text analytics
Distributed Microservices
SynapseML provides powerful and idiomatic tools to communicate with any HTTP endpoint service using Spark. Users can now use Spark as a elastic micro-service orchestrator.
Large Scale Model Interpretability
Understand any image classifier with a distributed implementation of Local Interpretable Model Agnostic Explanations (LIME).
Scalable Deep Learning
SynapseML integrates the distributed computing framework Apache Spark with the flexible deep learning framework CNTK. Enabling deep learning at unprecedented scales.