Vertex AI Pipelines is a service that allows you to create and run scalable and portable ML pipelines on Google Cloud. You can use Vertex AI Pipelines to add a component to divide the data into training and evaluation sets, and add another component for feature engineering. A component is a self-contained piece of code that performs a specific task in the pipeline. You can use the built-in components provided by Vertex AI Pipelines, or create your own custom components. By using Vertex AI Pipelines, you can orchestrate and automate your ML workflow, and track the provenance and lineage of your data and models. You can also enable autologging of metrics in the training component, which is a feature that automatically logs the metrics from your XGBoost model to Vertex AI Experiments. Vertex AI Experiments is a service that allows you to track, compare, and optimize your ML experiments on Google Cloud. You can use Vertex AI Experiments to monitor the training progress, visualize the metrics, and analyze the results of your model. You can also compare models using the artifacts lineage in Vertex ML Metadata. Vertex ML Metadata is a service that stores and manages the metadata of your ML artifacts, such as datasets, models, metrics, and executions. You can use Vertex ML Metadata to view the artifacts lineage, which is a graph that shows the relationships and dependencies among the artifacts. By using the artifacts lineage, you can compare the performance and quality of different models trained in different pipeline executions, and identify the best model for your use case. By using Vertex AI Pipelines, Vertex AI Experiments, and Vertex ML Metadata, you can execute the steps required for developing a training pipeline for a new XGBoost classification model based on tabular data stored in a BigQuery table. References:

Vertex AI Pipelines documentation

Vertex AI Experiments documentation

Vertex ML Metadata documentation

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