A/B Analysis for a Recommendation Model

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Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn how to retrospectively compare the behavior of two different models.
By the end of this tutorial you will know how to:
Set up an A/B application 
Analyze production data
Prerequisites
​Installed Hydrosphere platform​
​Python SDK​
Set Up an A/B Application
Prepare a model for uploading
requirements.txt
lightfm==1.15
numpy~=1.18
joblib~=0.15
tqdm~=4.62.0
Install the dependencies in your local environment.
pip install -r requirements.txt
train_model.py
import sys
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import joblib
from lightfm import LightFM
from lightfm.datasets import fetch_movielens
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    no_components = int(sys.argv[1])
    print(f"Number of components is set to {no_components}")
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    # Load the MovieLens 100k dataset. Only five
    # star ratings are treated as positive.
    data = fetch_movielens(min_rating=5.0)
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    # Instantiate and train the model
    model = LightFM(no_components=no_components, loss='warp')
    model.fit(data['train'], epochs=30, num_threads=2)
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    # Save the model
    joblib.dump(model, "model.joblib")
src/func_main.py
import joblib
import numpy as np
from lightfm import LightFM
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# Load model once
model: LightFM = joblib.load("/model/files/model.joblib")
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# Get all item ids
item_ids = np.arange(0, 1682)
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def get_top_rank_item(user_id):
    # Calculate scores per item id
    y = model.predict(user_ids=[user_id], item_ids=item_ids)
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    # Pick top 3
    top_3 = y.argsort()[:-4:-1]
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    # Return {'top_1': ..., 'top_2': ..., 'top_3': ...}
    return dict([(f"top_{i + 1}", item_id) for i, item_id in enumerate(top_3)])
serving.yaml
kind: Model
name: movie_rec
runtime: hydrosphere/serving-runtime-python-3.7:3.0.0
install-command: sudo apt install --yes gcc && pip install -r requirements.txt
payload:
  - src/
  - requirements.txt
  - model.joblib
contract:
  name: get_top_rank_item
  inputs:
    user_id:
      shape: scalar
      type: int64
      profile: numerical
  outputs:
    top_1:
      shape: scalar
      type: int64
      profile: numerical
    top_2:
      shape: scalar
      type: int64
      profile: numerical
    top_3:
      shape: scalar
      type: int64
      profile: numerical
Upload Model A
We train and upload our model with 5 components as movie_rec:v1
python train_model.py 5
hs apply -f serving.yaml
Upload Model B
Next, we train and upload a new version of our original model with 20 components as movie_rec:v2
python train_model.py 20
hs apply -f serving.yaml
We can check that we have multiple versions of our model by running:
hs model list
Create an Application
To create an A/B deployment we need to create an Application with a single execution stage consisting of two model variants. These model variants are our Model A and Model B correspondingly.
The following code will create such an application:
from hydrosdk import ModelVersion, Cluster
from hydrosdk.application import ApplicationBuilder, ExecutionStageBuilder
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cluster = Cluster('http://localhost')
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model_a = ModelVersion.find(cluster, "movie_rec", 1)
model_b = ModelVersion.find(cluster, "movie_rec", 2)
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stage_builder = ExecutionStageBuilder()
stage = stage_builder.with_model_variant(model_version=model_a, weight=50). \
    with_model_variant(model_version=model_b, weight=50). \
    build()
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app = ApplicationBuilder("movie-ab-app").with_stage(stage).build(cluster)
Invoking movie-ab-app
We'll simulate production data flow by repeatedly asking our model for recommendations.
import numpy as np
from hydrosdk import Cluster, Application
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
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cluster = Cluster("http://localhost", grpc_address="localhost:9090")
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app = Application.find(cluster, "movie-ab-app")
predictor = app.predictor()
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user_ids = np.arange(0, 943)
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for uid in tqdm(np.random.choice(user_ids, 2000, replace=True)):
    result = predictor.predict({"user_id": uid})
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