Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems

Authors: D. Sculley, Gary Holt, Daniel Golovin, Eugene Davydov, Todd Phillips, Dietmar Ebner, Vinay Chaudhary, Michael Young, Jean-François Crespo, Dan Dennison

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical This paper does not offer novel ML algorithms, but instead seeks to increase the community s awareness of the difficult tradeoffs that must be considered in practice over the long term. We focus on system-level interactions and interfaces as an area where ML technical debt may rapidly accumulate.
Researcher Affiliation Industry D. Sculley, Gary Holt, Daniel Golovin, Eugene Davydov, Todd Phillips EMAIL Google, Inc. Dietmar Ebner, Vinay Chaudhary, Michael Young, Jean-Franc ois Crespo, Dan Dennison EMAIL Google, Inc.
Pseudocode No The paper does not contain any pseudocode or clearly labeled algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper is a conceptual discussion of technical debt in ML systems and does not present a specific methodology or tool for which source code would be released. It does not mention any open-source code for its own described work.
Open Datasets No The paper is a conceptual discussion of technical debt in ML systems and does not describe experiments that use a specific dataset for training or evaluation. It references general practices and systems but not specific public datasets used in its own research.
Dataset Splits No The paper is a conceptual work and does not conduct experiments, therefore, it does not specify any training/validation/test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is a conceptual discussion of technical debt in ML systems and does not describe any experiments that would require specific hardware specifications.
Software Dependencies No The paper is a conceptual discussion and does not describe any specific software implementation details or experiments that would require listing software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is a conceptual discussion and does not describe any experiments or specific model training, thus it does not provide details about experimental setup or hyperparameters.