The document provides an overview of machine learning tools and frameworks available for .NET developers, including ML.NET and Windows Machine Learning (WinML). It discusses the importance of AI and machine learning in solving complex problems, offers guidance on getting started with these technologies, and showcases various use cases and resources. Additionally, it emphasizes the integration of Azure services to enhance model training and deployment capabilities.

1. Getting Started with
Machine Learning .Net and
Windows Machine Learning
[ ML.Net & WinML ]
Bruno Capuano
Innovation Lead @Avanade
@elbruno | http://elbruno.com

2. why should I care about AI and ML?
As a developer,

3. Some problems are difficult to solve using traditional algorithms and
procedural programming.

4. IBM slaps patent on coffee-delivering drones that can read
your MIND (link)

5. IBM slaps patent on coffee-delivering drones that can read
your MIND (link)

6. “It has exquisite buttons …
with long sleeves …works for
casual as well as business
settings”{f(x) {f(x)
Machine Learning: “Programming the Unprogrammable”

7. f(x)
Model
Machine Learning creates a
Using this data
Machine Learning: “Programming the UnProgrammable”

8. Is this A or B? How much? How many? How is this organized?
Regression ClusteringClassification
Machine Learning Tasks

9. Get started with Machine Learning
Prepare Data Build & Train Evaluate
Azure Databricks Azure Machine Learning
Quickly launch and scale Spark on demand
Rich interactive workspace and notebooks
Seamless integration with all Azure data
services
Broad frameworks and tools support:
TensorFlow, Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe2, Keras,
MxNET, PyTorch
In the cloud – on the edge
Docker containers
Windows Machine Learning

10. Hello WinML !
MakeMagicHappen();
https://www.avanade.com/AI

11. Windows ML uses ONNX models

12. Azure Machine Learning Services
gives you an end-to-end
solution to prepare data and
train your model in the Cloud.
WinMLTools converts existing
models from CoreML, scikit-
learn, LIBSVM, and XGBoost
Azure Custom Vision makes it
easy to create your own image
models - https://customvision.ai/
Azure AI Gallery curates models
for use with Windows ML -
https://gallery.azure.ai/models
How do I get ONNX models to use in my
application?

13. 1. Developers can focus on their data and
their scenarios, using Windows ML for
model evaluation
2. Enables using ML models trained with a
diverse set of toolkits
3. Hardware acceleration gets fast evaluation
results across the diversity of the entire
Windows device ecosystem.
Windows ML solves three problems for you
Direct3D
GPU
CPU
DirectML
Model Inference Engine
WinML Win32 API
WinML UWP API
Win32 App
WinML Runtime
UWP App

14. Machine Learning.Net

15. DESKTOP CLOUDWEB MOBILE ML
.NET
Your platform for building anything
IoTGAMING

16. Easy / Less Control Full Control / Harder
Vision Speech Language
Knowledge SearchLabs
TextAnalyticsAPI client = new TextAnalyticsAPI();
client.AzureRegion = AzureRegions.Westus;
client.SubscriptionKey = "1bf33391DeadFish";
client.Sentiment(
new MultiLanguageBatchInput(
new List<MultiLanguageInput>()
{
new MultiLanguageInput("en","0",
"This vacuum cleaner sucks so much dirt")
}));
e.g. Sentiment Analysis using Azure Cognitive Services
9% positive
Pre-built ML Models (Azure Cognitive Services)

17. ML.NET is for building custom models
Custom models
Easier / Less Control Harder / Full Control
Pre-built models
TensorFlow
ML.NETVisionSpeech LanguageKnowledge Search

18. Prepare Your Data Build & Train Run
Build your own custom machine learning models

19. ML.Net
Hello World
MakeMagicHappen();
https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/apps/machi
ne-learning-and-ai

20. Is this A or B? Kid or Baby
Based on the age:
Kid or Baby
Age classes explained

21. And more! Samples @ https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning-samples
Customer segmentation
Recommendations
Predictive maintenance
Forecasting
Issue Classification
Image classification
Object detection
Sentiment Analysis
A few things you can do with ML.NET …

22. Proven & Extensible Open Source
https://github.com/dotnet/machinelearning
Build your own
Supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS
Developer Focused
ML.NET 0.8.0 (Preview)
Machine Learning framework made for .NET developers

23. Windows 10 (Windows Defender)
Power Point (Design Ideas)
Excel (Chart Recommendations)
Bing Ads (Ad Predictions)
+ moreAzure Stream Analytics (Anomaly Detection)
ML.NET is Proven at scale, enterprise ready

24. ML.NET is a framework for building custom ML Models

25. Machine Learning.Net
How to use ML.Net

26. Less Control / Easy
Existing Solutions
Build your own (custom) ML Models

27. ML.Net
Working with 2 or more
columns
MakeMagicHappen();
https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/apps/machi
ne-learning-and-ai

28. Load Data
Extract
Features
Model
Consumption
Train
Model
Evaluate
Model
Prepare Your Data Build & Train Run
Machine learning workflow

29. Load Data Extract Features Train Model Evaluate Model
Model
consumption
labels + plain text labels + feature vectors model
End to End ML Workflow

30. Load Data Extract Features Train Model Evaluate Model
Model
consumption
labels + plain text labels + feature vectors
Enter...
in ML.NETLearningPipelines!
model
End to End ML Workflow

31. Load Data Extract Features Train Model Evaluate Model
Model
consumption
Machine Learning is Iterative

32. Machine Learning.Net
Demo scenarios

33. ML.Net
GitHub Issue Automatic Label
MakeMagicHappen();
https://github.com/elbruno

34. ML.Net, working with
TensorFlow frozen models
MakeMagicHappen();
https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/apps/machi
ne-learning-and-ai

35. • API improvements
• Additional ML Tasks and Scenarios
• Improved Deep Learning with TensorFlow
• Scale-out on Azure
• Better GUI to simplify ML tasks
• Improved tooling in Visual Studio
• Improvements for F#
• Language Innovation for .NET
Road Ahead for ML.NET

36. Bruno Capuano
Innovation Lead @Avanade
@elbruno | http://elbruno.com
Q&A
Thanks!