Introducing FBLearner Flow: Facebook’s AI backbone

Introduced FBLearner Flow, a new platform designed to democratize machine learning model training and experimentation for all Facebook engineers. FBLearner Flow enables reusable algorithms, parallelized training pipelines, automated experimentation, and easy search and sharing of past experiments. Key components include workflows, operators, and channels. The platform features an authorship and execution environment for custom distributed workflows and an experimentation management UI for launching experiments and viewing results. It has enabled over a million models to be trained and supports millions of predictions per second.