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id: mlflow-skinny
version: "3.15.1"
license: Copyright 2018 Databricks, Inc. All rights reserved. Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/licenses/ TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION 1.… (full text in the JSON record)
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# mlflow-skinny — MLflow is an open source platform for the complete machine learning lifecycle
License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI
## Install
pip install mlflow-skinny
uv add mlflow-skinny
poetry add mlflow-skinny
## Description
📣 This is the `mlflow-skinny` package, a lightweight MLflow package without SQL storage, server, UI, or data science dependencies.
Additional dependencies can be installed to leverage the full feature set of MLflow. For example:
- To use the `mlflow.sklearn` component of MLflow Models, install `scikit-learn`, `numpy` and `pandas`.
- To use SQL-based metadata storage, install `sqlalchemy`, `alembic`, and `sqlparse`.
- To use serving-based features, install `flask` and `pandas`.
**Note:** When using `mlflow-skinny`, set the tracking URI to your remote MLflow server:
```bash
export MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI="http://your-mlflow-server:5000"
```
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