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Retrain a New web service using the Machine Learning Management PowerShell cmdlets | Microsoft Docs
Learn how to programmatically retrain a model and update the web service to use the newly trained model in Azure Machine Learning using the Machine Learning Management PowerShell cmdlets.
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Retrain a New web service using the Machine Learning Management PowerShell cmdlets

When you retrain a New web service, you update the predictive web service definition to reference the new trained model.

Prerequisites

You must have set up a training experiment and a predictive experiment as shown in Retrain Machine Learning models programmatically.

Important

The predictive experiment must be deployed as an Azure Resource Manager (New) based machine learning web service.

For additional information on Deploying web services, see Deploy an Azure Machine Learning web service.

This process requires that you have installed the Azure Machine Learning Cmdlets. For information installing the Machine Learning cmdlets, see the Azure Machine Learning Cmdlets reference on MSDN.

Copied the following information from the retraining output:

  • BaseLocation
  • RelativeLocation

The steps you take are:

  1. Sign in to your Azure Resource Manager account.
  2. Get the web service definition
  3. Export the Web Service Definition as JSON
  4. Update the reference to the ilearner blob in the JSON.
  5. Import the JSON into a Web Service Definition
  6. Update the web service with new Web Service Definition

Sign in to your Azure Resource Manager account

You must first sign in to your Azure account from within the PowerShell environment using the Add-AzureRmAccount cmdlet.

Get the Web Service Definition

Next, get the Web Service by calling the Get-AzureRmMlWebService cmdlet. The Web Service Definition is an internal representation of the trained model of the web service and is not directly modifiable. Make sure that you are retrieving the Web Service Definition for your Predictive experiment and not your training experiment.

$wsd = Get-AzureRmMlWebService -Name 'RetrainSamplePre.2016.8.17.0.3.51.237' -ResourceGroupName 'Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS'

To determine the resource group name of an existing web service, run the Get-AzureRmMlWebService cmdlet without any parameters to display the web services in your subscription. Locate the web service, and then look at its web service ID. The name of the resource group is the fourth element in the ID, just after the resourceGroups element. In the following example, the resource group name is Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS.

Properties : Microsoft.Azure.Management.MachineLearning.WebServices.Models.WebServicePropertiesForGraph
Id : /subscriptions/<subscription ID>/resourceGroups/Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS/providers/Microsoft.MachineLearning/webServices/RetrainSamplePre.2016.8.17.0.3.51.237
Name : RetrainSamplePre.2016.8.17.0.3.51.237
Location : South Central US
Type : Microsoft.MachineLearning/webServices
Tags : {}

Alternatively, to determine the resource group name of an existing web service, log on to the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Web Services portal. Select the web service. The resource group name is the fifth element of the URL of the web service, just after the resourceGroups element. In the following example, the resource group name is Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS.

https://services.azureml.net/subscriptions/<subcription ID>/resourceGroups/Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS/providers/Microsoft.MachineLearning/webServices/RetrainSamplePre.2016.8.17.0.3.51.237

Export the Web Service Definition as JSON

To modify the definition to the trained model to use the newly Trained Model, you must first use the Export-AzureRmMlWebService cmdlet to export it to a JSON format file.

Export-AzureRmMlWebService -WebService $wsd -OutputFile "C:\temp\mlservice_export.json"

Update the reference to the ilearner blob in the JSON.

In the assets, locate the [trained model], update the uri value in the locationInfo node with the URI of the ilearner blob. The URI is generated by combining the BaseLocation and the RelativeLocation from the output of the BES retraining call. This updates the path to reference the new trained model.

 "asset3": {
    "name": "Retrain Samp.le [trained model]",
    "type": "Resource",
    "locationInfo": {
      "uri": "https://mltestaccount.blob.core.windows.net/azuremlassetscontainer/baca7bca650f46218633552c0bcbba0e.ilearner"
    },
    "outputPorts": {
      "Results dataset": {
        "type": "Dataset"
      }
    }
  },

Import the JSON into a Web Service Definition

You must use the Import-AzureRmMlWebService cmdlet to convert the modified JSON file back into a Web Service Definition that you can use to update the Web Service Definition.

$wsd = Import-AzureRmMlWebService -InputFile "C:\temp\mlservice_export.json"

Update the web service with new Web Service Definition

Finally, you use Update-AzureRmMlWebService cmdlet to update the Web Service Definition.

Update-AzureRmMlWebService -Name 'RetrainSamplePre.2016.8.17.0.3.51.237' -ResourceGroupName 'Default-MachineLearning-SouthCentralUS'  -ServiceUpdates $wsd

Summary

Using the Machine Learning PowerShell management cmdlets, you can update the trained model of a predictive Web Service enabling scenarios such as:

  • Periodic model retraining with new data.
  • Distribution of a model to customers with the goal of letting them retrain the model using their own data.