pixeltable 0.2.6

Pixeltable: The Multimodal AI Data Plane

Unifying Data, Models, and Orchestration for AI Products

  

Installation | Documentation

Pixeltable is a Python library that lets AI engineers and data scientists focus on exploration, modeling, and app development without dealing with the customary data plumbing.

What problems does Pixeltable solve?

Today’s solutions for AI app development require extensive custom coding and infrastructure plumbing. Tracking lineage and versions between and across data transformations, models, and deployment is cumbersome. Pixeltable is a replacement for traditional data plumbing, providing a unified plane for data, models, and orchestration. It removes the data plumbing overhead in building and productionizing AI applications.

⚡Quick Start

Learn the basics of Pixeltable through interactive examples. View the notebooks on Google Colab or Kaggle, for free.

Pixeltable Basics

In this tutorial, we'll survey how to create tables, populate them with data, and enhance them with built-in and user-defined transformations and AI operations.

  

💾 Installation

Pixeltable works with Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, or 3.12 running on Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

pip install pixeltable

To verify that it's working:

import pixeltable as pxt
pxt.init()

For more detailed installation instructions, see the Getting Started with Pixeltable guide. Then, check out the Pixeltable Basics tutorial for a tour of its most important features.

Why should you use Pixeltable?

• It gives you transparency and reproducibility
  • All generated data is automatically recorded and versioned
  • You will never need to re-run a workload because you lost track of the input data
• It saves you money
  • All data changes are automatically incremental
  • You never need to re-run pipelines from scratch because you’re adding data
• It integrates with any existing Python code or libraries
  • Bring your ever-changing code and workloads
  • You choose the models, tools, and AI practices (e.g., your embedding model for a vector index); Pixeltable orchestrates the data

Example Use Cases

• Interact with video data at the frame level without having to think about frame extraction, intermediate file storage, or storage space explosion.
• Augment your data incrementally and interactively with built-in functions and UDFs, such as image transformations, model inference, and visualizations, without having to think about data pipelines, incremental updates, or capturing function output.
• Interact with all the data relevant to your AI application (video, images, documents, audio, structured data, JSON) through a simple dataframe-style API directly in Python. This includes:
  • similarity search on embeddings, supported by high-dimensional vector indexing
  • path expressions and transformations on JSON data
  • PIL and OpenCV image operations
  • assembling frames into videos
• Perform keyword and image similarity search at the video frame level without having to worry about frame storage.
• Access all Pixeltable-resident data directly as a PyTorch dataset in your training scripts.
• Understand the compute and storage costs of your data at the granularity of individual augmentations and get cost projections before adding new data and new augmentations.
• Rely on Pixeltable's automatic versioning and snapshot functionality to protect against regressions and to ensure reproducibility.

Contributions & Feedback

Are you experiencing issues or bugs with Pixeltable? File an Issue.
Do you want to contribute? Feel free to open a PR.

:classical_building: License

This library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.