Hironori Washizaki, Hironori Takeuchi, Foutse Khomh, Naotake Natori, Takuo Doi, Satoshi Okuda, “Practitioners’ insights on machine-learning software engineering design patterns: a preliminary study,” 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020), Late Breaking Ideas track, Sep 26 – Oct 3, 2020.

Machine-learning (ML) software engineering design patterns encapsulate reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems within the given contexts of ML systems and software design. These ML patterns should help develop and maintain ML systems and software from the design perspective. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study on the practitioners’ insights on the use of ML patterns for design of their ML systems and software. Herein we report the preliminary results of a literature review and a questionnaire-based survey on ML system developers’ state-of-practices with concrete ML patterns.