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Artifact Store
An artifact store is a central place where various outputs from machine learning experiments, like trained models, data files, and evaluation reports, are stored and managed.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
An artifact store is a centralized, versioned repository for storing and managing digital assets generated during the ML lifecycle, including trained models, datasets, evaluation metrics, and configuration files, ensuring discoverability and reproducibility.
BACKGROUND
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1861 to advance "useful knowledge", the university has played a significant role in the development of many areas of technology and science.
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- Model repository
- ML asset store
- Artifact management
- Model registry
USAGE NOTE
The artifact store serves as the single source of truth for all machine learning assets, enabling seamless deployment and sharing.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Artifact Store.
Databricks is the company behind MLflow, an open-source platform for managing the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle. A core component of MLflow is its Tracking server, which functions as an artifact store by logging and storing model files, parameters, metrics, and other outputs from ML experiments.
Weights & Biases provides an MLOps platform with a specific feature called 'W&B Artifacts' designed to track, version, and manage datasets, models, and results across machine learning pipelines. It allows teams to log and restore any artifact with full lineage.
Comet offers an MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management, and monitoring. Its 'Comet Artifacts' feature provides a dedicated, versioned storage solution for datasets, models, and other assets, ensuring reproducibility and collaboration.
Iterative.ai develops Data Version Control (DVC), an open-source tool that brings version control to data and models. It works alongside Git to manage large files and artifacts, often using cloud storage as a backend, effectively creating a distributed artifact store.
AWS provides Amazon SageMaker, a comprehensive cloud-based machine learning platform. SageMaker includes a Model Registry and integrates deeply with Amazon S3 to act as a robust artifact store for models, data, and experiment outputs generated during the ML workflow.
Google Cloud's Vertex AI is a unified MLOps platform that includes the Vertex AI Model Registry and Vertex AI Experiments. These services use Google Cloud Storage to store and version all artifacts associated with model development, such as datasets, trained models, and evaluation metrics.
Neptune.ai is a metadata store for MLOps, designed for experiment tracking and model registry. It serves as a central hub to log, store, query, and visualize all machine learning artifacts and metadata generated throughout the model lifecycle.
Pachyderm offers a data-centric MLOps platform built on Kubernetes that provides immutable, versioned file systems for data. It automatically captures a complete history of all data and code artifacts, enabling data lineage, reproducibility, and automated data-driven pipelines.