Swiss Chemical Company

Conducting a ML model assessment and delivering a comprehensive report confirming the direction taken by the internal team and foresting innovation

Challenge

• Client needed help to assess internally-developed ML models to determine if they were worth patenting
• Unclear goal on what to do with existing models and lacking MLOps best-practices with poor reproducibility

Solution

• Wrote codebase on Azure ML with MLOps practices allowing reproducibility and fast iterations and benchmarked model against well-known datasets
• Delivered comprehensive report (official ICLR publication) analysing why the method worked, proposing improvement, conducting a literature review
  and providing future guidelines

Business impact

• Results were encouraging for the internal team
• Fostered innovative spirit and the method gained traction within the company
• Report was a new asset that could be used as a stepping stone for a paper publication