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| title: "Gradio: Hassle-free sharing and testing of ML models in the wild" | |
| abstract: >- | |
| Accessibility is a major challenge of machine learning (ML). | |
| Typical ML models are built by specialists and require | |
| specialized hardware/software as well as ML experience to | |
| validate. This makes it challenging for non-technical | |
| collaborators and endpoint users (e.g. physicians) to easily | |
| provide feedback on model development and to gain trust in | |
| ML. The accessibility challenge also makes collaboration | |
| more difficult and limits the ML researcher's exposure to | |
| realistic data and scenarios that occur in the wild. To | |
| improve accessibility and facilitate collaboration, we | |
| developed an open-source Python package, Gradio, which | |
| allows researchers to rapidly generate a visual interface | |
| for their ML models. Gradio makes accessing any ML model as | |
| easy as sharing a URL. Our development of Gradio is informed | |
| by interviews with a number of machine learning researchers | |
| who participate in interdisciplinary collaborations. Their | |
| feedback identified that Gradio should support a variety of | |
| interfaces and frameworks, allow for easy sharing of the | |
| interface, allow for input manipulation and interactive | |
| inference by the domain expert, as well as allow embedding | |
| the interface in iPython notebooks. We developed these | |
| features and carried out a case study to understand Gradio's | |
| usefulness and usability in the setting of a machine | |
| learning collaboration between a researcher and a | |
| cardiologist. | |
| authors: | |
| - family-names: Abid | |
| given-names: Abubakar | |
| - family-names: Abdalla | |
| given-names: Ali | |
| - family-names: Abid | |
| given-names: Ali | |
| - family-names: Khan | |
| given-names: Dawood | |
| - family-names: Alfozan | |
| given-names: Abdulrahman | |
| - family-names: Zou | |
| given-names: James | |
| doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1906.02569 | |
| date-released: 2019-06-06 | |
| url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02569 | |