tidymodels + azure machine learning

[verajosemanuel]

Feature

In situations when I have a lot of heavy computations It would be very nice to run tidymodels on Azure Machine Learning.

is there any possibility of doing such?

Regards

[juliasilge]

Have you checked out some of the documentation for the Azure ML SDK for R? The approach laid out here looks like it could be adapted to use tidymodels instead of caret, although it is a bit older from September of 2020 so I'm not sure how up-to-date that documentation is.

[verajosemanuel]

no success so far. Some reading makes me think this is not possible.

Max Kuhn commented here long time ago.

https://twitter.com/topepos/status/1254972604693258246

And to my request, answered "not yet"

So, if my english is correct, no way to use tidymodels on Azure right now.

[juliasilge]

Well, we're not so sure that there is no way to use tidymodels on Azure currently. For example, have you looked into using Azure as a parallel backend?

[edgBR]

Hi @verajosemanuel

You can use whatever language in azure machine learning. You just need to create a container with your dependencies, an entry point script with the parameters your tidymodels algorithm/pipeline needs and then log your metrics to azure using the older azure SDK.

If what you what is distributed training then this is a bit more complex.

BR
Edgar