Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3531 provides cloud computing requirements for machine learning as a service (MLaaS), which addresses requirements from use cases. MLaaS is a cloud service category in which the capability provided to the cloud service customer is the provision and use of a machine learning (ML) framework, which is a set of functionalities for provisioning ML data, as well as training, deployment and management of an ML model.

From the perspective of cloud computing service provision, Recommendation ITU-T Y.3531 provides the functional requirements for MLaaS to identify functionalities such as ML data pre-processing, ML model training and ML model testing. Also, Recommendation ITU-T Y.3531 is aligned with the cloud computing reference architecture specified in Recommendation ITU‑T Y.3502.