Thank you and Ali for doing this great work! Chen Li
On Tue, Oct 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM Tanishq Prashant Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > ML model support tracked under 6494 > <https://github.com/apache/texera/issues/6494> is now on main! A model is > a > resource of its own, and a Python UDF can read one at runtime without > downloading it. Big thanks to Ali, who built the mounting half and reviewed > most of this work, to Meng for reviewing, and to Professor Chen for his > advising! > > Three parts landed together, because running a model needs all three: > > - Models. Create one under Your Work -> Models, upload files or whole > folders, and commit them as an immutable version. Share it with people, > publish it to the Hub, and find it through unified search. > > - Mounting (6606 <https://github.com/apache/texera/issues/6606>). A UDF > declares a parameter with value=Resource.MODEL; the property panel then > offers a model browser instead of a text box, and at runtime the UDF > receives a local directory. Nothing is downloaded - file contents travel > only when the code reads them, so loading one shard of a large model > transfers one shard. > > - Curated computing-unit images (8466). An administrator registers a > published image, Texera checks it is a computing-unit image and pins its > digest, and it appears as a dropdown when a user creates a computing unit. > This is what makes a model whose runtime the stock image does not carry - > xgboost, or something like AlphaFold 3 - actually runnable. > > Models are off by default behind gui.tabs.models_enabled and > gui.tabs.model_enabled, both toggleable in Admin -> Settings. > > Ali and I wrote up the design and what the three parts look like in use on > the blog, go here if you want to learn more!: > https://texera.apache.org/blog/2026/10/04/ml-model-support/ > > Feedback is welcome. Next up is agreeing on a standard layout for a model > so Texera can load one without being told how, and a no-code inference > operator on top of that. > > Thanks, > Tanishq >
