IBM Machine Learning for z/OS vs. Pytorch

IBM Watson Machine Learning is an AI-based scalable self-learning model for any type of business. It can be used to help any company automate repetitive tasks, predict future trends, and make data-driven decisions. I used it to predict stock prices based on certain variables. It works well, cost me nothing, and gives me the ability to create my own AI-based models that I can use for any purpose.

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Everything deep learning related if not on TPU (in such case, JAX would be better suited). For LLM deployment, libraries such as vLLM would be better suited, too; otherwise, wrapping the PyTorch model with Ray is a good option.

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• Good machine learning tool
• Easy integration

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• Provides Benchmark datasets to test your custom algorithm
• Provides with a lot of pre-coded neural net components to use for your flow
• Gives a framework to write really abstract code.

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• Proper usage of REST API documentation is missing.
• Not localization friendly, cannot support regional or local language documents.

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• It should have support for Java also as Java is one of the most popular language.
• They should make things more easy if we want to use GPUs for computation.
• They should keep adding the latest models so that we can easily load them for use for further fine-tuning.

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The big advantage of PyTorch is how close it is to the algorithm. Oftentimes, it is easier to read Pytorch code than a given paper directly. I particularly like the object-oriented approach in model definition; it makes things very clean and easy to teach to software engineers.

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IBM had a hard time providing business level support. There were a lot of data scientists and technology experts but rarely a simple business person shows up. Also the way IBM operates IBM Consulting has competing priorities as compared to IBM Technology. This has resulted in a lot of confusion at the client's end.

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We have been using Microsoft Azure as a machine learning tool. But the challenges remain the same. These are all tools that you need a robust analysis before a decision on the tool. Unfortunately, the technology company cannot make that determination due to lack of core business understanding. Without that the project is doomed.

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Saving and loading Machine/Deep Learning models is very easy with Pytorch. It provides visualization capabilities when combined with Tensorboard, and mathematical operations are highly optimized. Easy to understand for a person who is an expert in Python. It takes significantly less time to create valuable POCs as most of the things are inbuilt.

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• Create secure business environment.
• Save upto 90% of manual labor.
• Improve my sales and marketing ROI.

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• Less time wasted on handling the library version issues
• Small learning curve as very similar to Python
• Compatibility with other popular Python libraries makes it easy to build a lot of things on it

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