Weights & Biases: Why Serious AI Builders Use It
2025-11-09
If you browse any serious ML repo, you’ll see:
import wandb
So what does Weights & Biases actually do?
🚀 It's Experiment Tracking
Think of W&B as GitHub for training runs.
It stores:
- configs
- hyperparameters
- logs
- metrics
- losses
- validation accuracy
And lets you compare them visually.
🧠 Why It’s Critical
Training ML models is basically:
- tweak something
- run the model
- monitor
- compare
- repeat
Without experiment tracking, you’re blind.
🧬 W&B Helps With:
- fine-tuning
- reinforcement learning
- evaluation
- dataset versioning
- model artefact storage
It’s like a flight dashboard for your model.
❗ Should YOU Learn It?
Not required for:
- agent systems
- RAG apps
- chatbots
- small tools
BUT extremely useful when:
- fine-tuning
- experimenting with embeddings
- benchmarking models
If you ever go deeper into custom ML, W&B becomes your best friend.