Secure Compute-to-Data for Agrifood AI Model Training

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Secure Compute-to-Data for Agrifood AI Model Training

Overview

This service allows AI startups, researchers, and enterprises to train their machine learning and deep learning models on diverse, real-world agricultural datasets without ever accessing the raw data. By utilizing the AgrospAI architecture, data providers (such as agricultural cooperatives) retain complete sovereignty over their sensitive information. Customers deploy their algorithms into a secure data room where the training occurs locally on our cluster, outputting only the trained model weights. The service leverages the AgrospAI cluster (up to 280 CPU cores and 6 GPUs with 288 GB total GPU memory) to perform heavy training tasks, such as computer vision for pest detection or predictive analytics for crop yields. The environment is containerised, ensuring that the customer's proprietary algorithms are protected while preventing any extraction of the host's raw datasets.

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How can the service help you?

The customer will receive: Access to a secure, containerised environment to deploy their training scripts. Access to high-end GPUs to accelerate deep learning training cycles from weeks to hours. The ability to train on exclusive, multi-cooperative datasets that would otherwise be legal or commercially inaccessible. With this, the service solves: Data privacy and sovereignty bottlenecks: cooperatives can monetize or share the value of their data without risking data leakage or copying. Data scarcity for AI development: startups gain the volume and variety of data necessary to create robust models. Infrastructure limitations: AI teams do not need to invest in massive local GPU farms to train on large agricultural datasets.

How the service will be delivered

Client access is granted via Agrospai’s Pontus-X portal where developers can submit their training scripts as Docker containers. Prior to access, the client will be provided with the specifications of the filesystem and may be provided with a template that the container will interact with. Default access lasts for a pre-defined training window (e.g., 1 to 3 months) based on the computational requirements. Throughout the training process, other training workflows can be integrated (like benchmarking metrics) with a performance report delivered to the client at the end of the training window.

Service customisation

We are open to adjusting the service to customer expectations, including the allocation of specific GPU/CPU resources, the integration of custom benchmarking metrics during the training loop, and the facilitation of connections with specific data providers within the AgrospAI ecosystem.
Sector
Arable farming
Food processing
Greenhouse
Horticulture
Livestock farming
Tree Crops
Viticulture
Test type
Data
Design / Documentation
Software or AI model
Type of service
AI model training
Country of delivery
Country of delivery: Spain
Remote Remote
Service provider(s):
  • Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
    Spain
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