[GitHub] [beam] wenchenglu commented on a change in pull request #11075: [BEAM-9421] Website section that describes getting predictions using AI Platform Prediciton

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wenchenglu commented on a change in pull request #11075: [BEAM-9421] Website section that describes getting predictions using AI Platform Prediciton
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/11075#discussion_r392549097
 
 

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+layout: section
+title: "AI Platform integration patterns"
+section_menu: section-menu/documentation.html
+permalink: /documentation/patterns/ai-platform/
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+# AI Platform integration patterns
+
+This page describes common patterns in pipelines with Google AI Platform transforms.
+
+<nav class="language-switcher">
+  <strong>Adapt for:</strong>
+  <ul>
+    <li data-type="language-java">Java SDK</li>
+    <li data-type="language-py" class="active">Python SDK</li>
+  </ul>
+</nav>
+
+## Getting predictions
+
+This section shows how to use a cloud-hosted machine learning model to make predictions about new data using Google Cloud AI Platform Prediction within Beam's pipeline.
+ 
+[tfx_bsl](https://github.com/tensorflow/tfx-bsl) is a library that provides `RunInference` Beam's PTransform. `RunInference` is a PTransform able to perform two types of inference. One of them can use a service endpoint. When using a service endpoint, the transform takes a PCollection of type `tf.train.Example` and, for each element, sends a request to Google Cloud AI Platform Prediction service. The transform produces a PCollection of type `PredictLog` which contains predictions.
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+Before getting started, deploy a machine learning model to the cloud. The cloud service manages the infrastructure needed to handle prediction requests in both efficient and scalable way. Only Tensorflow models are supported. For more information, see [Exporting a SavedModel for prediction](https://cloud.google.com/ai-platform/prediction/docs/exporting-savedmodel-for-prediction).
 
 Review comment:
   Does that mean users will need to separately deploy a model first? will it be a better user experience if some initial setup stage for Beam can call AI Platform prediction public API to deploy model and get the service endpoint? 
   
   Also, for batch inference scenario, model deployment is a one-off job, users then need to un-deploy models to avoid unnecessary charges. Should they do that separately, or is there a BEAM final stage we could plug in a API call to delete that model deployment? 

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