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yProv4ML: Effortless Provenance Tracking for Machine Learning Systems

Published: July 1, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.01078v1

By: Gabriele Padovani, Valentine Anantharaj, Sandro Fiore

Potential Business Impact:

Helps track how computer "brains" learn best.

Business Areas:
Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

The rapid growth of interest in large language models (LLMs) reflects their potential for flexibility and generalization, and attracted the attention of a diverse range of researchers. However, the advent of these techniques has also brought to light the lack of transparency and rigor with which development is pursued. In particular, the inability to determine the number of epochs and other hyperparameters in advance presents challenges in identifying the best model. To address this challenge, machine learning frameworks such as MLFlow can automate the collection of this type of information. However, these tools capture data using proprietary formats and pose little attention to lineage. This paper proposes yProv4ML, a framework to capture provenance information generated during machine learning processes in PROV-JSON format, with minimal code modifications.

Country of Origin
🇮🇹 Italy

Repos / Data Links

Page Count
12 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)