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Getting Started

Created on September 8|Last edited on September 9
WHAT IS W&B AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE:
  • Free
  • Easy
  • Makes you better at your job
  • Explain W&B in one sentence ("we log everything, better models faster, etc)
  • We'll teach you how to use it below!

This tutorial will show you everything you need to get started with Weights & Biases.
W&B is free for personal use and academic projects; and is used by ML engineers at OpenAI, Lyft, Pfizer, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Toyota, GitHub, and MILA. W&B is part of the new standard of best practices for machine learning.
Weights & Biases is the leading machine learning platform for developers to build better models faster.

SO, OKAY, WHAT CAN I DO WITH W&B ANYWAY?
Use W&B's lightweight, interoperable tools to:

  • Track experiments, metrics & gpu usage. Visualize results, debug models and spot regressions. Evaluate model performance
  • Version, iterate on and analyze datasets
  • Optimize hyperparameters automatically
  • Reproduce models – capture code, hyperparameters, metrics, input data, and the exact code version that trained each model
  • Collaboratively train models and share findings with colleagues
  • Data and model provenance – create reliable records for auditing models

WE KNOW YOU VALUE YOUR DATA. SO DO WE.
  • Security – Install in private cloud and on-prem, SOC2